Breakthrough! a research-engagement hybrid project that is committed to women of colour inclusion in the university, in the workplace and beyond. The Women’s Café is a direct outcome of the findings Breakthrough discovered.
How it started
In January 2018, Queen Mary’s School of Business and Management awarded a small grant to Sadhvi Dar to investigate why Bangladeshi women alumni are reporting extremely poor levels of graduate level work. In March 2018, the BreakThrough! Bangladeshi Women’s Career Group was created to carry out student-led research and develop relevant interventions that would address the challenges Bangladeshi women alumni face regarding their graduate outcomes.
In the UK, Bangladeshi women have dramatically poorer chances of finding work with graduate level or professional employers. They also face persistently hostile workplaces and often report higher instances of discrimination, bullying and harassment.
BreakThrough! is a student-led, self-organized group of women alumni and students, set up as a response to Bangladeshi women’s limited career opportunities. The group’s current remit has been broadened by the Bangladeshi women who established the group. Today, BreakThrough! aims to investigate the impediments that all women of colour graduates face in their careers – and during their degrees.
Breakthrough! designed a range of service evaluations and evidence-based interventions aimed at creating equitable opportunities for women of colour addressing careers, stability and prosperity both at university and beyond it.
Find out more about Breakthrough!’s research, methodology and publications here.
If you are a woman of colour and you would like to propose a research project for BreakThrough!, please email Sadhvi Dar/visit our Contact Us page.
