Integration of immigrant women is focus of Toronto study - General - Economic Integration and Immigrant Women in Toronto: A Bilateral Perspective - Brief Article

Community Action, July 15, 2002

TORONTO -- Economic Integration & Immigrant Women in Toronto: A Bilateral Perspective is a collaborative research effort involving the Canadian Centre for Women's Education and Development, the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Centennial College Canadian Business Resource Centre, and the Children's Aid Society of Toronto and Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) is funding the project.

The 3-year, Toronto-wide research project is examining the interdependent relationship between employers and the labour market and immigrant women. Research efforts will deal with the changing workplace, recruitment trends and preferences, and employer needs and skill-requirements, as well as skills and employability issues among immigrant women, ranging from recent to long-term arrivals and the unemployed and underemployed to managers and senior executives.

Annual reports of the projects will be published. Research will be available on government and CCWED websites, with links from other partner sites. It is anticipated that local government, private and public organizations, and community groups will participate, according to the women who arrived in Canada at 18 years of age or older, regardless of the year of arrival are of special interest.

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