Resources and Toolkit

These resources are designed to provide individuals, organizations, and external groups tools and information to inspire and drive diversity and inclusion across the industry. In addition to a list of supporting organizations, resources for employers and whitepapers can be found and used as tools to analyze current efforts and initiatives, and create a larger conversation around diversity and inclusion best practices.

Local Events and Workshops

• SCWIST events
• WinSETT events
• WWEST events

Organizations Supporting diversity in Engineering and Geoscience

• BCWiT (BC Women in Technology)
• Women in Engineering and Geoscience
• IEEE WIE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Women in Engineering)
• ISSofBC (Immigrant Services Society of BC)
• IWIS (Immigrating Women in Science and Technology)
• Mining Association of BC – Women in Mining, Vancouver Branch
• SCWIST (Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology)
• SPEATBC (Society of Punjabi Engineers and Technologists)
• The Minerva Foundation for BC Women
• WIE-VR (Women in Engineering – Vancouver Region)
• WinSETT (Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology)
• WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) Atlantic
• WiSE Okanagan's Mentoring Program
• WWEST (Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology)

Tools for Organizations and Employers

• Have employees take the Harvard University Implicit Association Test
• Tools available from the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion
  • Getting Started - Diversity and Identity
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

The following valuable whitepapers were developed as part of the Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology program in collaboration with the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for BC and Yukon.

• Developing a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
• Managing Transitions: Before, During and After Leave
• Diversity Vision - Welcoming Workplaces
• Gendered Words List
• Hiring Committee Information
• Mentoring Works
• Microagressions
• Social Identity Threat and the Workplace
• Stereotype Threat
• Unconscious Bias
• Understanding Workplace Diversity for Managers

Tools for Educators

• Building a School-Wide Initiative
• Student Engagement Resources
  • Elementary
  • High School