Grants and Contributions:

Supporting Women’s Access to Employment, Retention, Advancement in male dominated fields

NA230378

$924,370.00

Oct 13, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026

This 30-month project will address women's systemic barriers to job retention and representation in male-dominated fields. Build a Dream aims to improve equity and women's economic participation and prosperity across workplaces such as the Skilled Trades, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), law enforcement, emergency response and entrepreneurship. To do so, the organization will build strategic relationships with key stakeholders, community leaders, and businesses and perform an environmental scan to capture existing knowledge and best practices to enhance the industry's capacity and leadership to help women, including students and women from underrepresented communities, pursue careers in male-dominated fields. Build a Dream will offer career development opportunities by connecting industry collaborators, students, and job seekers through virtual conferences, career discovery exhibitions, workshops, and hands-on learning programs. Also, the organization will develop a mentoring program and host a leadership symposium highlighting initiatives to improve women's economic pathways across these fields. An awareness campaign and open dialogue on gender perspectives and stereotypes will also be launched. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to the elimination of systemic, persistent and prejudicial barriers to women's equality in male-dominated sectors and the creation of a more diverse and inclusive workforce by changing norms and attitudes, encouraging collaboration, networking and improving access to resources that enable women to participate fully and thrive.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Windsor, Ontario, CA N8T 3G6

001-2023-2024-Q3-00053

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Build a Dream to Empower Women

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.