How Canada can improve its STEM gender deficit

While jobs in domains related to science, technology, engineering, and math are growing three times faster than other parts of the economy and paying 12 per cent higher, these jobs employ less than 25 per cent women. The Senate Open Caucus recently heard some ways we can help change that.

Elsie MacGill, an aircraft designer and Canada’s first female engineer, was featured in this comic book story in the January 1942 issue of True Comics. If she were alive today, ask Senators Art Eggleton and Raymonde Saint-Germain, would she be impressed that 20 per cent of Canada’s post-secondary STEM-field students are female?Image courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY SENATOR ART EGGLETON, SENATOR RAYMONDE SAINT-GERMAIN

February 25, 2018

We recently celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and there’s much to celebrate—but also, much work to do. It’s a day to celebrate just how far we’ve come since Elsie MacGill, aircraft designer and Canada’s first female engineer, was asked to leave the University...

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