Schulich's EDIA Week 2024

You're invited to attend Schulich's EDIA Week sessions!

Schulich is hosting three sessions with keynote speakers from Schulich and WISE Planet. The sessions are open to UCalgary faculty, staff and graduate students. 

Our sessions: 

WISE Planet: How to Make Your Invisible Work Matter
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Time: 2 - 3 p.m. MT
Speakers: Laleh Behjat and Stacia McCoy 
This workshop will define the actions needed for systemic policy change, identify practical tools to advocate for and support more equitable, diverse and inclusive (EDI) policies and provide participants the opportunity to use these tools in an interactive group setting. Specifically, workshop participants will brainstorm, evaluate, and propose inclusive and equitable practices in organizational systems and culture to acknowledge and value unrecognized leaders and equitably distribute Invisible Work. This often-unvalued work, which includes tasks such as scheduling meetings, taking meeting notes, onboarding new team members, document organization, and report writing, is critical to an organization’s function and its capacity to develop and retain technical talent. Thus, recognition and more equitable distribution of this Invisible Work is essential to organizational performance and their retention of technical talent, particularly women, who often do a disproportionate amount of this work.

Developing EDIA at SSE and EDI Awards Ceremony Stream
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. MT
Join us for a "Listen and Learn" brainstorming session around EDIA topics at the Schulich School of Engineering, then stay for lunch as we stream the EDI Awards Ceremony!
Awards will be livestreamed from ENG 207 and lunch will be provided.

WISE Planet: STEM Moms Project
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024
Time: 2 - 3 p.m. MT
Speakers: Julie Hawco and Stacia McCoy 
In this presentation, participants will learn how the intersectionality of women in STEM and working parents is critical to maintaining a healthy STEM professional pipeline. The STEM Moms Project, a year-long focus group on this novel topic, examined how motherhood contributes to the loss of mid-career women in STEM. This loss has broad implications as research shows that more gender-diverse teams have more high-impact scientific discoveries and organizations with more women in management and leadership roles yield greater productivity and more successful business performance. Establishing Canadian policies that promote the retention of STEM mothers, and, by extension, women in STEM and working parents and advance transformational systemic change to achieve gender equity could significantly increase the impact of Canadian STEM research, innovation and business on a global scale.