{"id":111998,"date":"2024-03-08T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/immigrant-womens-contributions-among-those-celebrated-on-international-womens-day-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:43:18","slug":"international-womens-day-in-canada-celebrating-contribution-of-immigrant-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/international-womens-day-in-canada-celebrating-contribution-of-immigrant-women\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day in Canada: Celebrating Contribution Of Immigrant Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mona Shahwan El-Tahan first arrived in Newfoundland in 1975 as a young engineering graduate from Cairo University ready to\u00a0study<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and get her master\u2019s degree at Memorial University.<\/p>\n

Today, she is the president and founder of InCoreTec Inc., a St. John\u2019s-based research and development and consulting firm whose engineers, scientists and software developers offer services to local, national, and international clients.<\/p>\n

She is also still a director emeritus of the non-profit she founded, WISE NL (Women in Science and Engineering), which works to boost the participation level of women in science, technology, engineering, and math, often described as the STEM fields, in Newfoundland.<\/p>\n

In recognition of International Women\u2019s Day, El-Tahan is one of many women profiled on the Canadian government\u2019s\u00a0Women of Impact in Canada<\/span><\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

El-Tahan\u2019s achievements are clearly impressive. In addition to developing the first mathematical model in North America to predict the movement of icebergs, she also helped develop technology that reduced friction on the Canadarm, the robotic arm of the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

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In Canada, immigrant women can and do often accomplish amazing things in all spheres of endeavour, empowered by an educational system and culture which encourages girls and women to excel in their chosen fields.<\/p>\n

After arriving in Canada as a child of only 11 years old and a\u00a0refugee<\/span><\/a>, Guatemala City-born Karina Hayat studied biology at Vancouver\u2019s Douglas College before founding Prizm Media, a digital media and technology company that connects chronically ill patients with needed healthcare products and services, with her husband, Zeeshan Hayat. Today, she is the company\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

Despite the great strides made by immigrant women in Canada, they are still unfortunately less likely to land executive jobs and sit on corporate boards than Canadian-born employees or immigrant men, reveals a report by Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n

And those immigrant women most likely to land such coveted positions still come from predominately-Caucasian countries.<\/p>\n

Immigrant Women Under-Represented In Boardrooms<\/h3>\n

In its first socioeconomic profile\u00a0of\u00a0immigrant women at admission who later landed management gigs in Canada,\u00a0Immigrant Women Among Board Directors And Officers: From Admission In Canada To Executive Roles<\/i>, released in late 2022, the statistical and demographic services agency revealed these women tend to hold lower-level executive jobs and be paid less than others.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite decades\u00a0of\u00a0gains in the workplace, women continue to be underrepresented in leadership and decision-making positions,\u201d noted the statistical and demographic services agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen who reach an executive role in their careers tend to hold lower-level positions than men or ones with less decision-making authority\u2014patterns that are reflected among immigrant women executives.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his book,\u00a0Why Men Earn More<\/i>, Dr. Warren Farrell outlined roughly a decade ago 25 life choices women tend to make more often than men which results in them being paid less than their male counterparts. According to Farrell, those choices often lead women to having more balanced and happier lives.<\/p>\n

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