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Marcia Braundy is a university-educated journey-level carpenter. After developing four alternative schools (Antioch University West & The Whole School in Appledale, B.C. are still in operation), she started in construction in 1974, working on the Vallican Whole Community Centre. Braundy completed pre-apprenticeship in 1977, her Red Seal qualification in 1981, and continues in the trade to the present. She was the first woman in the construction sector of the B.C. Carpenter's Union (1980), building Victorian renovations, hospitals, seniors housing, a shopping mall and a coal silo 278' tall. (Some of her local jobs include the Heritage Inn, now back to the original name: The Hume Hotel; the Kiwanis Villa II, Cutler’s News Victorian restoration, the Chako Mika Mall, the Silverton Gallery, the Nakusp Intermediate Care Unit and many homes and other projects)

She received her PhD in Technology Studies from the University of British Columbia (2004). Dr. Braundy traveled with the DVD of her play, Men & Women and Tools, to union halls and technical schools in BC, Yukon and Northwest Territories exploring challenges in integrating women successfully into trades and technical work (2005-06). The book, based on her PhD dissertation, Men & Women and Tools: Reflections on Male Resistance to Women in Trades and Technology will be published in the next year by Fernwood Publishing.

Marcia Braundy founded the newsletter of the Nelson Women’s Centre and the Kootenay Women's Council, which became IMAGES – Kootenay Women’s Newspaper (1973-1991), and was a part of the Collective formed to produce the paper for many years. She is currently preparing a digitized copy of those papers for the West Kootenay Women’s Association in Nelson, British Columbia.

In the early 1980’s, she worked for several years with a group of 13 women to develop EMMA’s Jambrosia as a business to support chronically unemployed women in the West Kootenays, under the auspices of first LEAP and then LEAD programs of the federal government. The product was distributed across Canada. Working with the owner of the property,Ray Kosiancic, she built the factory in Crescent Valley, where they produced a wonderful fruit product that couldn’t be called jam because it wasn’t 70% sugar, it was 70% fruit! The building now houses Mountain Sky soaps.

Braundy developed and instructed Women In Trades and Technology (WITT) exploratory courses at Selkirk College (1983), the College of New Caledonia (1986), and Yukon College (2006). She authored Orientation To Trades and Technology, A Curriculum Guide and Resource Guide With A Special Emphasis On The Needs Of Women (1987, 1997) sponsored by the Government of British Columbia, WITT National Network, Human Resources Development Canada. The Canadian Vocational Association published Out of the Stream and Into the River(1992), highlighting Canadian issues for these courses. Working with Sally Mackenzie and Valerie Ward, she developed and delivered over 40 sessions of The Workplace In Transition: Integrating Women Effectively, a seminar for trades instructors, job stewards, counsellors & supervisors, to assist them to deal more successfully with women training and working in the technical workforce (BC & Ontario colleges, DND Union, Ontario Hydro Staff Trainers, BC & Yukon Joint Board Coordinators etc). She produced the A/V What Happens to Women In Tradesland available in DVD as a tool for the seminar.

She worked with equity group integration efforts on major construction projects. A founding member of the Equity Integration Committee of the $1.3 billion Island Highway project on Vancouver Island, and the Ad Hoc Women's Committee on the Columbia Basin Trust (1994-1998), she worked to ensure a gender impact analysis and jobs for women. The Island Highway achieved a high of 22.9% equity hours worked, with an average equity participation of 16.8%. The Columbia Basin Power Projects are working towards targets under a similar collective agreement, partly as a result of her discussion paper: Employment Equity, Women's Needs and the implications for the Columbia Basin Trust. Braundy organized Surviving and Thriving - Women In Trades and Technology and Employment Equity(1988, 240 participants), and managed Surviving & Thriving II - The Sequel (1992, 300 participants), and Building Bridges – Building Partnerships (1994, 374 participants), national conferences with 60-80 workshops over 4 days. She was managing editor of Surviving & Thriving – Women In Trades and Technology & Employment Equity (Kootenay WITT, 1989), and a writer on Winning With Women in Trades, Technology, Science and Engineering - the Report of the National Advisory Board on Science and Technology presented to the Prime Minister of Canada in 1993.

Her small construction and consulting company, Journeywomen Ventures Ltd., started in 1983, trained and qualified two women apprentices to journey-level. In 1986, Braundy traveled to Grenada, at the request of their Division of Women’s Affairs, for an ACCC-funded project to develop and instruct a technical introduction to a two-year technical training program for women. She organized the successful implementation of the longer program while there.

From 1989-94, Braundy was elected National Coordinator of the WITT National Network, advocates for women in trades, technology, operations and blue collar work, and grassroots WITT groups across the country increased from 6 to over 40. She published the Network newsletter and coordinated a national Industrial Adjustment (IAS) committee of WITT women, employers, unions, educators and government, looking at programs, policies and initiatives to increase the successful integration of women in trades, technical and operational (TTO) work. Their focus on Front Line Education, WITT Exploratory Course National Standards, Role Modelling, and Employment Equity led to a national cross-sectoral Human Resource Council and the publication of Welcoming Women into Trades, Technology, Operations and Blue Collar Work: A Checklist of Strategies.

With the Federal Advisory Committee to the President of the Treasury Board on Employment Equity for Women in the Public Service (1986-91) Braundy chaired the Sub-Committee on Training, recommending the government, as employer, develop a service-wide apprenticeship program with an emphasis on designated groups, and bridging programs to move women into technical occupations.

Nominated by the Canadian Congress on Learning Opportunities for Women, Braundy sat on the CLMPC National Task Force on Apprenticeship (1989/90), the Canadian Labour Force Development Board Sub-Committee on Apprenticeship (1991-94) chairing their Equity Committee, and the CLFDB's Employment Equity Working Group (1993-94). She was a member of the BC Provincial Apprenticeship Board (1992-97), and chaired their Equity Committee.

A member of the National Women's Reference Group on Labour Market Issues (1989-94), the BC Women's Employment and Training Coalition (1985-1999), Kootenay WITT (1983-2002), and the West Kootenay Women's Association (1972-present), she has a long history of involvement working for social and economic equality for women.

An educator and Employment Equity consultant, Dr. Braundy’s subject areas include Women’s and Gender Studies, with a focus on Training and Work, Communications and Principles of Teaching for Teacher Education, Technology Studies in Education, Orientation to Trades & Technology, Employment Equity and Human Rights, Apprenticeship, “Free Schools” and Alternative Education, Qualitative Research Methods and Alternatives in Research Writing.

Awards and Other Selected Publications: Braundy received The Governor General’s Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Confederation, 1993, for service to the community. What Needs to Change to Get More Women Into Apprenticeship appears in the book, Strategies That Work: Women In Trades, Technology and Applied Science (Joyce Scane, Pat Staton & Margaret Schneider eds.,Green Dragon Press 1995). The Equity In Apprenticeship Resource Kit, was co-authored with Deanna Rexe (BC Ministry of Skills, Training and Labour, 1996). At UBC, she collaborated with Drs. M. Bryson, S. Petrina and S. de Castell, investigating the participation and performance of males and females in technology-intensive classes in B.C.'s Secondary Schools: "Conditions for Success"? (2003) Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education. Another joint article with Dr. S. Petrina, Dr. P. O'Reily, S. Dalley and A. Paxton: Missing XX Chromosomes or Gender In/Equity in Design and Technology Education? The Case of British Columbia won the 2001 Silvius - Wolansky Outstanding Scholarly Publication in Technology Education. She received a two-year Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to complete her dissertation using theatre as a pedagogical tool. Dewey's Technological Literacy: Past, Present, Future won the Journal of Industrial Teacher Education’s Outstanding Conceptual Article for 2003-2004. Men & Women and Tools: Investigating Resistances to Equity Initiatives, an article based on her dissertation, won First Place in the US-based National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators’ (NAITTE) Graduate Student Research competition (2004). Her play, Men & Women and Tools was performed in the Brave New Play Rites Festival (2002).

The issues that arise at the site of men and women and tools continue to hold a fascination for her. She recently completed a major renovation project on a log home on the Little Slocan River. The easy and positive attitudes of all the men with whom she worked gave her great heart.

Degrees, Qualifications and Professional Development: Baccalaureate Degree: Antioch College West/Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, California, 1972 BC Certificate of Apprenticeship and Red Seal Qualification in Carpentry 1981 Master’s level course work: University of British Columbia, 1998 PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, December 2004 1998, 2002: TAGS Instructional & Presentation Skills Workshops - UBC 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004: TAGS – UBC May Institutes & Workshops on Web Page Design, Power Point, Adding Images and Graphics to your Word and PowerPoint Documents, Introduction to Animated GIF, Excell, FrontPage, WebCT. 2001: Visiting Scholar Don Krug’s Flash and Dreamweaver course for teachers; Education Computing Services computer skills workshops - Various 2003, 2004 Project Management Prof. Development, UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies 2003 Conflict Resolution Professional Development, UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies