So, It’s Not About the Money?
Digging into the bigger whys behind corporate social responsibility efforts New research confirms that small and medium-sized businesses, like Raise, aren’t just taking on social and environmental causes in an attempt to indirectly boost their bottom lines. A recent research article by a team of academics from the University of Waterloo raises some interesting observations […]
Exploring female underrepresentation in tech, engineering and leadership
A recent report revealed that seven in 10 Google employees are male, while women compose just 21 percent of the tech titan’s leadership. Women make up 48 percent of non-tech positions within the company, but the gender discrepancy becomes much more acute among engineering, tech and management roles, according to CNN. In fact, only one […]
Understanding and addressing the STEM gender imbalance
May 9, 2014 Women are largely underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, according to the latest National Household Survey results released by Statistics Canada.