By 2017, visible minorities are expected to represent one in five people in Canada’s available workforce; by 2011, they will comprise all net growth in the labour force. These talented, hard-working women and men will be critical to the performance of Canadian companies and firms in the decades to...
: To become an employer of choice in a globally competitive environment, companies must invest in productive employees and a more effective workplace. In conjunction with the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Catalyst identifies one of the factors...
This report shows that lawyers, particularly women lawyers, continue to perceive flexibility options as detrimental to their careers. In this third and final report in Catalyst’s series on , lawyers state their case on job flexibility. They suggest what needs to happen to law firm work...
is the third in a series of research reports examining the representation levels of women in the Investment Dealer and Retail Private Client lines of business of the Canadian Capital Markets industry. In 2005, a new addition to the series highlights company practices from the industry—programs,...
Despite different national and cultural backgrounds, Catalyst found that women leaders gave similar accounts of what impedes their advancement in business. When Catalyst asked women leaders to identify the barriers that keep them out of the most senior positions in business,...
is the second report in the series of studies Catalyst is undertaking to examine barriers to women's advancement in the workplace.
: Prior research by Catalyst reveals that a key barrier cited by women is lack of access to networks of influential colleagues. Influential colleagues are those who...
