The crisis facing internationally trained women engineers in Canada

Authors

  • Ann Catherine Henley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/vg2n0z77

Author Biography

  • Ann Catherine Henley

    Ann Catherine Henley is a PhD candidate in gender studies. She has an MA in globalization and an MA in gender studies. Her interests include skilled migration and the labour market, immigrant women and micro businesses in Canada, and aging and disability in the age of neo-liberalism.

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Published

2017-05-31

How to Cite

The crisis facing internationally trained women engineers in Canada. (2017). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/vg2n0z77