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Why do women still earn so much less than men?
… for the past three years running, women have been making progressively less than men. This, despite being better educated than men, despite storming the hallways of senior management and leaning their way into company boards, women in Ontario are earning less and less compared to men… jobs for women in health and education and retail… tend to be low-paying jobs… “At this change of pace we’re going to have to wait till 2125 to close that gap.”
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Ontario’s Employment Standards Act is in desperate need of reform
… more than 40 per cent of work in Ontario is now done “outside of standard, full-time, permanent employment with a single employer.” An increasing number of people now work part-time, or on contract, or are classed as “independent contractors” — designations that may allow employers to deprive them of basic gains such as overtime pay, benefits, regular work schedules, a modicum of job security, and a minimum wage.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Want bigger families? Let women work
It turns out that [female work-force participation rates], if backed by robust sex equality and work-life balance policies, actually reinforce rather than contradict one another… Canada(s)… fertility has been stuck at a middling 1.7 children per family for a long time… Canada has not followed its Commonwealth neighbours in introducing national child-care strategies and other such programs designed to increase the participation of women in the work force.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, women
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Pay attention private sector: Public sector wages are higher because the gender gap is much smaller
The pay premium is not evenly distributed across the public sector… the people benefiting the most are women and minorities. Not fat-cat bureaucrats, but cooks and cleaners and clerks who are getting access to above-the-poverty line wages and sick leave benefits they would have far less access to in the private sector.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, women
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Quebec model balances greater equality with economic progress
Quebec is more equal than other provinces, in large part because of its distinctive social and labour market policies… Quebec’s distinctive family policies have had positive effects on the economy, increasing the labour force participation rate of women and thus lowering poverty. And educational attainment boosted by provincial policies is rapidly converging with the rest of Canada… Equity and efficiency need not be opposed, but can go hand in hand.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Sweden’s prostitution solution
In 1999, it passed a law to criminalize the buyers of sex, but not the sellers… street prostitution has been cut by more than half since 1995… Many Swedes view prostitution not as a choice or a moral offence, but a form of male violence against women… when Amnesty International said it planned to lobby for legalization, Swedish women’s rights organizations were outraged.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Between budgets, jobs and combat, how does Harper find time for the niqab?
His point was that those who cover their faces are not making a choice of their own free will – but are victims of subjugation… You can dislike the niqab and still think it’s not the Prime Minister’s place to comment in this way on individual behavior, and to imagine that he knows the reasons why people make the choices they do.
Tags: featured, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, women
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Wynne’s welcome plan to challenge violence against women
The “Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment” includes: – Powerful TV ads targeting sexual harassment and violence against women, coupled with a hashtag campaign #WhoWillYouHelp… – Stronger workplace safety legislation requiring employers to investigate sexual harassment. – Measures to ensure that assault cases are prosecuted more fairly, effectively and respectfully. – Better funding for survivor support. – And previously announced changes to the sex-education curriculum that focus on consent and healthy relationships.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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We’re a long way from true equality
… making commitments is the easiest part — it’s the implementation that’s the major challenge… our recommendations are clear: a national action plan on violence against women and girls; a national anti-poverty plan with a clear gender lens; affordable early learning and child care; federal (and where none exists, provincial) pay-equity legislation, gender budgeting, and decision-makers who are responsive to the needs of women and girls.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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The solutions at hand for aboriginal women
… both aboriginal and non-aboriginal leaders have spoken of the need for comprehensive improvement in aboriginal Canadians’ lives: better and less crowded housing, education improvement, fighting addictions, job opportunities… the bulk of the problem is bound up in precisely those “sociological phenomena” — poverty, misery, addictions, hopelessness — that can be relied upon to produce violent outcomes in any society, of any ethnicity.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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