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Hire Back Better

Promoting Equity in Employment & Economic Recovery 

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#HireBackBetter

GROW Women Leaders
Hire Back Better 
for a Diverse Economic Recovery 

Through this campaign, we are bringing diversity and equality awareness to the public and to hiring managers to "Hire Back Better” and how our Canadian Career Plus Program (CC+P) create employment equitables among minorities and immigrant communities through connecting educated women, especially immigrant women to companies 

 

After embarking on PROJECT150 for the past four years, we have discovered that minorities and immigrant women are disproportionately underemployed or unemployed in the Canadian  workforce. We feel that in other to have a more inclusive economic recovery post pandemic, employers must learn to hire back better

 

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Stats and Data show that...

There is a increase in the underemployment and unemployment rate of visible minority individuals:

  • The unemployment rate increased by 1.7% points to 8.9% among Canadians who are not designated as visible minority or Indigenous.

Unemployment rate by visible minority and region as of August 2021

  • In Alberta, visible minorities are 10.2% and 7.9% for those who are not.

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  • Across Canada, visible minorities are 9.8% and 7.0% for those who are not.

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  • Women who are visible minorities experience an unemployment rate of 10.2% and those who are not Indigenous or a visible minority experience a 7.7% unemployment rate [5]​​

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  • Unemployment rate between visible minority men and women, men are at 9.3% and women are at 10.2% [5]

Women are facing greater job losses than men:

  • Women’s employment declined by 7% compared to 4% for men.

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  • The unemployment rate for core-aged women is more than twice that among core-aged men.

The unemployment rate increased by: 

  • 7.6% points to 20.1% among Southeast Asian Canadians

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  • 5.5% points to 16.4% among Black Canadians

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  • 4.5% points to 16.6% among Latin American Canadians

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  • 2.0% points to 10.8% among Chinese Canadians

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Furthermore, among those who hold degrees in Canada 53% of them are women, but only 25% hold Vice President titles and 15% are CEOs. Visible minority women experience an intersectionality of gender and race that contribute to inequality in the workforce. If the woman is an immigrant, this is an additional barrier that limits their ability to work in the Canadian workforce. Discrimination is experienced by 21% of visible minority women and 33% of them are less likely to get a job matched with their education. This proportion has since increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

GROW provides women, especially underrepresented minorities and immigrants with the opportunities needed to succeed in Canada’s workforce, by connecting them with economic opportunities through job matching, training, and on-going support. Since our company started, GROW has built a diverse top talent pool in Canada where we are successfully supporting and connecting many qualified women with various partner organizations and companies.

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