HALIFAX, N.S.  -  A 5-year project will launch on International Women's Day which lets female leaders collaborate on creating new set of diversity and inclusion tools for battling gender bias: a portrait collection capturing the 'female face' of innovation and accomplishment.

A Halifax-based business is launching a new project that lets women leaders use portrait art as a diversity and inclusion tool to battle gender bias in the workspace.

The Great Women Portrait Project enables female-led companies, like MDW Law, to add portraits of pioneering women to their workspace.

Business leaders soon will be able to access a new kind of diversity and inclusion tool to battle gender bias in the workspace: original portraits of female pioneers who paved powerful but little-known paths, in traditionally male-dominated domains like law, science and engineering..

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