Women
Women In Business Team Application and Terms of Reference
MEETINGS
September 2022: Meeting Agenda
Surrey Women in Business Team Meeting – Pay Up for Progress June 2022
September 2021: Meeting Agenda
SURREY WOMEN IN BUSINESS E-NEWSLETTER JULY 2022
SURREY WOMEN IN BUSINESS E-NEWSLETTER MARCH 2022
DEMOGRAPHICS
Female Statistics
MEDIA RELEASES
MAY 10, 2022
Surrey Board of Trade Asks TransLink for More Safety Measures for Women on Public Transit
The Surrey Board of Trade issued a letter to TransLink CEO Kevin Quinn, calling for immediate action to improve safety measures for women on public transit.
“To ensure that all women are part of the workforce, we need to address the needs of women on transit,” said Anita Huberman, President & CEO, Surrey Board of Trade. “Women, in most cases, are the primary caretakers of their children, taking them to and from appointments, going to work, daycare, and school, and grocery shopping, which requires frequent trip chaining. The Surrey Board of Trade has heard firsthand incidents of harassment and fear from our members while using transit. This fear for safety is not easily understood.”
The Surrey Board of Trade and their Surrey Women in Business Team recommend that:
- TransLink research the transit needs of women and conduct a women’s safety audit;
- Ensure that the time for one fare during the day is extended to 3 hours, reducing the financial burden placed on women;
- TransLink implement a family-only cab, compartment, or section of a transit vehicle;
- More female staff be hired to provide a level of comfort for women; and,
- Install better lighting at all transit stops, and on all transit vehicles.
Read the Letter-to-Translink
Anita Huberman, 604-634-0342, anita@businessinsurrey.com
RESOURCES
10 Things the Federal Government Can Do to Fully Engage Women in the Workforce
Understanding the Impact of the Pandemic on Working Women
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT
WOMEN, WORK DISRUPTION AND THE PANDEMIC
NEW RESEARCH: Despite a lack of supports, Canada’s women entrepreneurs are finding new and creative paths to growth
Report – Growing Their Own Way
BREAKING BARRIERS: A decade of Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship in Canada
Business leaders sound alarm, say working women need help now
10 Things the Federal Government Can Do to Fully Engage Women in the Workforce
Five Things the Federal Government Can Do Right Now to Support Women and Foster Economic Growth
Organizations that Help Women to get started in the Construction Trades
What’s Really Holding Women Back?
WOMEN IN BUSINESS ACTION PLAN
What it’s about:
Funding, growth and leadership for female entrepreneurs
The Surrey Board of Trade believes that women leaders are integral to high-performing work teams. We know that by propelling women with high-growth entrepreneurs and their ventures one by one, we are leading a transformation of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a whole.
We know that:
- Women-run companies create new jobs 4 times faster than the national average.
- Women create companies at the double the national average
- The number of women with incorporated businesses more than doubled in the past decade
Surrey Women in Business Team
Under the umbrella of the SBOT’s Business Centre, a community of experts committed to propelling female entrepreneurship and young women entrepreneurs – not career-focused – but building entrepreneurship for today and tomorrow to ensure full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fuelling innovation and driving economic growth.
Advocacy – Events – Projects – Services through the Surrey Board of Trade’s Business Centre
We actively identify women-led ventures in our Surrey market positioned to be the largest city in British Columbia.
We are blazing new ground with a differentiated and holistic model that provides inclusive teams and ventures with the services/support they need to propel growth through collaborative partners.
The Surrey Board of Trade has positioned itself to reduce the gender gap, actively support female entrepreneurship, and know that we need to work together to improve access to and quality of programming that empowers women with equal opportunity for success and champions them as the next great leaders in business.
