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  2. Category:20th-century Canadian women engineers - Wikipedia

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    It includes Canadian engineers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "20th-century Canadian women engineers" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

  3. Women in engineering - Wikipedia

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    In 1960, women made up around 1% of all engineers, and by the year 2000, women made up 11% of all engineers, for an increase of 0.25 percentage points per year. At this rate, one would not expect 50-50 gender parity in engineering to occur until the year 2156.

  4. History of women in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.

  5. History of women in engineering - Wikipedia

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    Although the terms engineer and engineering date from the Middle Ages, they acquired their current meaning and usage only recently in the nineteenth century. Briefly, an engineer is one who uses the principles of engineering – namely acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge – in order to design and build structures, machines, devices ...

  6. École Polytechnique massacre - Wikipedia

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    He left the office and was seen in other parts of the building before he entered a second-floor mechanical engineering class of about sixty students at about 5:10 p.m. [8] After approaching the student giving a presentation, he asked everyone to stop everything and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. No one moved at ...

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  8. Technological and industrial history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Loyalist women settling in Upper and Lower Canada grew flax and raised sheep for wool to make clothing, blankets and linen. The Jacquard loom, introduced in the 1830s, featured a complex system of punch cards to control the pattern and was the first programmable machine in Canada. With the arrival of industrial textile mills in Montreal and ...

  9. Category:21st-century Canadian women engineers - Wikipedia

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    It includes Canadian engineers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "21st-century Canadian women engineers" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.