Greater support needed for invisible majority of Canadian women in STEM

Immigrant women make up the majority of Canada’s women in STEM, but they experience higher unemployment, underemployment, and wage gap rates than their peers.

Government, for its part, should be just as interested in ensuring immigrant women successfully integrate into the labour market as they are in selecting and inviting them to come to Canada, writes Saadia Muzaffar.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SAADIA MUZAFFAR

August 31, 2023

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