(From The Globe and Mail) -- Bombardier Aerospace is one of the world's largest producers of civil aircraft, with nearly 17,000 full-time employees in Canada. But its areas of engineering and manufacturing traditionally haven't attracted many women.

The company is out to change that.

"We've broadened our strategy to increase diversity, with having more women throughout the organization as a top priority," says Elisabeth Buss, director of leadership development and talent management at the Dorval, Que.-based organization, a division of Montreal's Bombardier Inc. "Increasing diversity is a business strategy: We want our employees to be representative of the community in which we do business."

Women have made up two-thirds of the recent growth in the Canadian workforce, climbing from 35 per cent in the 1970s to 50 per cent in 2005, according to the book Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations. Following its inaugural two-day Women in Leadership Forum in Montreal in 2010, Bombardier Aerospace set a goal to increase the percentage of women in management positions from the current 16 per cent to 25 per cent by next year.

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