Six Years.
300+ Data Points.
One Consistent Pattern.
What High-Performing Women Engineers with Caregiving Responsibilities Who Get Results Have in Common
A research brief drawn from six years of MoMBA and Quantum cohorts, including survey data, participant contracts, call recordings, and documented outcomes from women across Canada's engineering, energy, infrastructure, and technical sectors.
The Question We Couldn't Ignore
Across six years, one question kept surfacing.
Not from women who were struggling, but from women who were already succeeding.
Principal Engineers. Scientists. Managers. Business owners.
Women with advanced degrees, strong careers, and families they deeply cared about.
The question wasn't "How do I become successful?"
It was "Why does success still feel harder than it should?"
What We Found
The data challenged one of the biggest assumptions about high performance.
The women who experienced the strongest career growth, healthier relationships, greater energy, and more confidence weren't the ones working harder.
They weren't more disciplined or more productive.
They had redesigned how they operated.
That pattern appeared again.
And again.
And again.
This Research Is Different
This isn't a collection of opinions.
It reflects six years of observed patterns from women working inside organizations such as:
Suncor Energy
Enbridge
Shell
EPCOR
ATCO
Pembina Pipeline
Worley
Associated Engineering
...and more than 50 additional organizations.
The findings are drawn from
272 survey responses
300+ observed participant data points
cohort recordings
written contracts
letters to self
documented participant outcomes
