CyberWoman.ca project looks at narrowing the gender gap in cyber defence

While DND wants to increase the number of women enrolling in Canada’s cyber defence, it faces a dual challenge on this front: in addition to low participation in cyber, fewer women than men choose a military career in the first place.

A Royal Canadian marine, pictured Nov. 9, 2018, on the HMCS Edmonton on Operation Caribbe, in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. the U.S.-led effort involves 14 countries aimed to stop drug trafficking. Canada will be deployed there until next month. Photograph courtesy of CF Combat Camera/Twitter

Opinion

BY RIMA ARISTOCRAT AND SUSANNE CORK

November 26, 2018

For generations, women were discouraged from considering the skilled trades as career or vocational options. Subtly or not-so-subtly, they were guided away from jobs that required physical strength or endurance. While these attitudes are changing, they have effectively left many women out of high-de...

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