About Us
About Us
How It Started
TGC is celebrating 10 years of advancing a STEM economy where women thrive!
Launching with Portraits of Strength in 2013 (a series of vignettes that featured the beautiful diversity of Canada’s women-in-STEM in all its multifaceted glory: age, faith, race, ethnicity, disability, gender orientation, immigration status, and different ages and stages of life), our journey to support women and their work on their own terms has led to a wide range of projects in partnership with public and private organizations. Our projects explore bold solutions to persistent problems when it comes to building robust, diverse, equitable talent pipelines that lead to innovative workplaces and a globally competitive economy.
Today, our work consists of research and collaboration across sectors to develop resources, tools, policies, programs, and leadership initiatives. We work with artists and communities to present our findings in beautiful, accessible, and compelling ways.
Our work and resources have been featured in Fortune Magazine, CNN Money, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, BNN, NPR, BBC, and CBC. We take pride in our relationships with organizations in all 13 provinces and territories in Canada, with international partners as far away as Australia, and being part of the Canadian delegation to APEC 2016 in Peru, and to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2023.
Since 2017, TGC has also served as the Canada Centre for Immigrant Women in STEM, who represent 52% of Canada’s women-in-STEM workforce.
How We Work
Our work lives at the intersection of research and practice. We conduct innovative research and also translate this research into actionable pilot programs and supporting resources. By doing so, we take on the work of de-risking of experimentation for small or resource-strained organizations.
We believe in making accessible tools that are publicly available. Our programs and resources are built with elasticity for scaling programs up- or down and allow for implementation with little friction by a broad network of organizations.
Our tools, resources, programs, and initiatives are people-centered. We want to ensure that through all our work, Canada’s STEM-trained women feel seen, heard, and respected with a sense of shared ownership towards our goals. Similarly, our work reflects the value and trust we have in community contributors and partner organizations and the meaningful work they do. As a larger community with a shared commitment, we can work towards a more equitable future.
We use stories as data in our research and resources to amplify the voices and lived experiences of the women we support. Storytelling as data is a vital tool in challenging dominant narratives which erase, oversimplify and universalize women's voices.
