The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) boasts five advocacy task forces: Energy, Infrastructure, Environment, Research and Innovation, and Diversity and Inclusion. The task forces were set up to inform…
The following blog post was contributed by Diversity & Inclusion Task Force member, Vanessa Raponi, EIT, regarding her experiences as a young, queer, woman of colour working in different engineering…
On January 30th, 2020, Rotman’s Centre for Gender and the Economy, hosted Towards a Feminist City (II): Gender and Diversity in the City Building Industry. The event included a panel…
One of Canada’s leading philanthropists began his career as an engineer. Michael Lee-Chin, famously known for his $30 Million dollar donation to the Royal Ontario Museum for the construction of…
On November 6, 2019, the EDI Imperative: Changing the Profile of STEAM in Canada, presented by OSPE’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, brought together more than 700 members of…
The Ministry of Labour outlines workplace rights and offers tips for staying safe at work. Wearing the right gear and receiving adequate training are at the top of the list.…
Anna Gkalimani is a Structural Engineer with NA Engineering Associates Inc. She has years of international engineering experience from her work in Greece and Cyprus where she worked as an…
The term ‘intersectionality’ was coined in 1989 by American scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, now a professor at Columbia Law School, to explain the specific experiences of oppression of African-American women. She…
Microaggressions in the workplace: the uncomfortable sensation women and other equity-seeking groups experience all too often “Your name is really hard to pronounce; can I just call you Jay?” “Wow…
On Friday, March 29, astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history by completing the first all female spacewalk. However, the spacewalk was cancelled. CNN released an…
