Workshop - Women and Ambition: What is a Flourishing Life? - March 5, 2007

Available to students, postdocs, and professional women in the sciences in the Vancouver area, both members of SCWIST and non-members are welcome!

WHEN: Monday, March 5, 2006. 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: YWCA, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver, 4th floor, Welch Room 2

REGISTRATION: Free to members of SCWIST. $10 for non-members.

Available to members of SCWIST and other Vancouver women in the sciences. Register online via SPORG.

This workshop will be looking at the topic of ambition and will explore the challenges and changes we experience in this area. We may look at some of these questions:

• Why are educated women often with graduate degrees leaving the workforce to have their families? (How do they feel, what happens when they try to return, how do their partners feel, etc.)
• Are there any ways younger women who love their work can prepare their lives to include their career and family.
• What issues do women face (that men don’t) in thinking about personal ambitions?
• What does it mean to negotiate equality at home as we seek equality in the workplace?
• Are there situations that face women in science and technology that men do not have to deal with?
• What does it mean for a workplace to be “family-friendly”. What is the reality?

Presenter

Lil Blume is a communications consultant based in Toronto. Her workshops on women, ambition, and communication were enthusiastically received at University of Victoria, CCWESTT, UBC, SFU, U of T, and McMaster U, as well as at conferences and industry PD sessions. She is currently teaching in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto.