{"id":756,"date":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-285\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:13","slug":"innovation-anthology-285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/01\/21\/innovation-anthology-285\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #285:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 285.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While more women are entering the sciences, statistics show that only 12 percent of engineers are women, and in construction it&rsquo;s a dismal 4 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Another problem is keeping these women in the industry once they&rsquo;ve completed their education. <\/p>\n<p>A long time campaigner for women in non-traditional roles, Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour says the problem is a male dominated culture in the workplace. <\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. MARGARET-ANN ARMOUR:<\/strong><em> An awful lot of it has to do with having a family and being able work, and trying to balance the two. Because if it&rsquo;s a workplace which is still fairly well male dominated, it has a male culture. And the male culture is you shall work 18 hours a day and always be there. And women are saying I don&rsquo;t want that. I don&rsquo;t want that kind of lifestyle. I want a balance. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Armour and her colleagues have recently launched WinSETT Centre. <\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Edmonton, the Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology will focus its first programs on training women as leaders. <\/p>\n<p><strong>DR. MARGARET-ANN ARMOUR:<\/strong><em> If we don&rsquo;t have women as leaders in engineering, the culture of engineering is not going to change, So when young women come into the workforce, they&rsquo;re going to not stay. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Learn more about the WinSETT Centre at InnovationAnthology.com<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02010-01-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While more<strong> women<\/strong> are entering the sciences, statistics show that only 12 percent of engineers are women, and in construction it&rsquo;s a dismal 4 percent. Another problem is keeping these women in the industry once they&rsquo;ve completed their education. A long time campaigner for women in non-traditional roles, <strong>Dr. Margaret-Ann Armour <\/strong>says the problem is a male dominated culture in the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,18,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-science","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}