Pleasures, challenges and solutions
ISBN : 9782897997120
Year of publication : 2024
Nombre de pages : 438
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
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What is the situation for women in engineering? What is their situation in fields where they are largely in the minority? What are their pleasures, but also their obstacles? How can we attract, integrate and retain women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics)?
The situation of women in engineering in Quebec: pleasures, challenges and solutions provides some answers to these questions through: a background (problem, literature, research method); a synthesis of results on the pleasures and motivations, as well as the challenges and difficulties, for each group of women encountered: women working in engineering, women engineering professors and women engineering and STEM students; a synthesis of findings from human resources specialists, the situation of Aboriginal people and the situation of women from immigrant backgrounds; other findings that address equity and inequities experienced or perceived in engineering and STEM; the different visions of EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion), women's self-perceptions, their contribution to engineering ; the vision of some men working in engineering, which helps to nuance the results; strategies and solutions that are proposed for the education sectors, for business and for society; mentoring, which is approached as a particular strategy; recommendations, which are presented with two skills repositories and a practical model. The complementary expertise of the co-researchers and collaborators brings an original and innovative dimension to thinking about the situation of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).
With the collaboration of : Marie Eva Andriantsara, Jessica Bélisle, Cristina Guzman, Jessie Morin, Jennifer Petrela and Morgane Vandel
Diane Gagné, PhD (Industrial Relations, Université de Montréal), has had an atypical career. She is a full professor in the Department of Human Resources Management at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), specializing in labor relations and public employment policy. She was the first female petrochemical technician in the mid-90s. She is a member of the UQTR Board of Directors (since January 2022); member of the Board of Action travail des femmes (ATF); director of the UQTR School of Management (June 2021 to June 2023); director of graduate program committees (UQTR, since June 2023); co-chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) institutional committee (May 2020 to November 2023); co-founder and member of the UQTR feminist studies laboratory (since 2019) ; associate member of GRIMADD (Groupe de recherche intervention sur les minières en Afrique et le développement durable, since June 2020), which has been awarded a UNESCO Chair; member of the RéQEF research group (Réseau québécois en études féministes, since 2019); member of the GIREPS research group (Groupe interdisciplinaire et interuniversitaire de recherche sur l'emploi, la pauvreté et la protection sociale, since 2015); research member of the CRIMT research group (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail, since 2014). Her teaching and research interests in relation to the situation of women are: feminist research and intersectionality; the difficult gender mix in employment; citizenship at work,systemic discrimination (EDI, equity, diversity, inclusion); precariousness of and in employment; the influences of public employment policies on systemic discrimination issues. She has several scientific publications to her credit in recent years, including as author or first author: Déconstruction du triptyque " préjugés, stéréotypes et idéologies " de quelques actions syndicales au Québec (2024, with Chloé Fortin-Bergeron) ; Femmes " opérateur " à technicienne en pétrochimie : qu'est-ce qui achoppe ? (2022); The polymorphic conception of systemic discrimination: unions between discourse and action in Quebec/L'illusion de l'égalité: conception polymorphique de l'action syndicale québécoise, entre discours et actions (2021/2022); Femmes " opérateur " 30 ans ont passés: quelles distances parcourues? Le cas du secteur de la pétrochimie, du raffinage et du Gaz au Québec (2019). In 2024, she co-authored the book Situation de femmes en ingénierie : plaisirs, défis et solutions (French, English, Spanish) and the research report Situations de femmes en ingénierie dans des secteurs où elles sont largement sous-représentées.
Louise Lafortune, Ph.D. (Sciences de l'éducation, enseignement des mathématiques), is Professor Emeritus and Associate of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) and Visiting Professor at the University of Holguín (Uhol, Cuba). She is co-founder of AFFESTIM (Association de la francophonie à propos des femmes en sciences, technologies, ingénierie et mathématiques) and has been a member of its Board of Directors since its foundation in 2003. Her research interests include the situation of women, the affective dimension of learning, sociopedagogical equity and intercultural pedagogy, and the situation of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). In particular, she is co-author of Enfoque de género para lograr más equidad (2019), Manifeste à propos des femmes en STIM (2022) and Femmes en situations professionnelles: expériences cubaines et canadiennes (2022). Four books are in preparation: Une approche d'équité sociopédagogique sensible à l'EDI (équité, diversité, inclusion) pour les domaines des MST (mathématiques, sciences et technologies) pour stimuler les filles, mais aussi les garçons, à s'orienter en STEM (2024); Perspectives sociopédagogiques pour une équité des femmes Cuba-Québec (2024); La situation de femmes en ingénierie? Pleasures, obstacles and solutions (2024); Co-construction in feminist partnership research. Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lafortune
