To
celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) and support the IWD 2022 Theme
#BreakTheBias, STEM for Girls Canada interviewed four female
executives, Jane Yuen (CIBC), Tatjana Lalkovic (Definity), Dhruva Suthar
(IBM) and Deb Pimentel (IBM). In these videos, the
women shared vulnerable experiences, insights and knowledge learned from
their professional careers, as well as encouragement and advice for
youth. We
believe these videos are important because girls are telling us they
want to learn and grow for greater representation in STEM fields (and we
know it's hard to find those female role models). Through these videos,
we hope girls will start to see their future
selves in STEM careers. Our hope is that these videos will inspire our
community of youth, especially young girls, to continue learning STEM,
bringing awareness to women in STEM (in high power roles), and
spotlighting successful role models for youth.