Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce


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Heidi Penning
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Issue date: March 10, 2025
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CanWCC is the first (and only) chamber of commerce to represent and advocate for the over 1.2 million diverse women-identified and non-binary entrepreneurs, self-employed, and business owners in Canada.
Type
Program
Format
Online
Description
In Canada, women-identifying and non-binary entrepreneurs own 31% of businesses but receive only 3-4% of venture capital investment dollars.
Research shows that the language investors use when talking to women entrepreneurs about their businesses is at least partly responsible for this disparity.
In response to the striking gender gap in access to capital, the Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC) developed an educational program that teaches an applied communication strategy to mitigate the inherent bias women experience.
To perfect this applied skill, the program includes AI-enabled software to challenge entrepreneurs until their responses to bias-infused questions become second nature.