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The Motherload sheds light on the unfinished business of feminism
Mothers in North America are suffering from higher levels of depression, anxiety, weight gain and high blood pressure. Studies have also suggested that educated, upper middle class, professional mothers are drinking more to cope with anxiety and guilt… The struggles facing working mothers and the health consequences that flow from them are the unfinished business of feminism… Broader social attitudes that continue to see raising children as something without value, something that is not real work continue to hurt us all.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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PSW’s earnings sickening
The new contract “awarded” 4,500 Ontario personal support workers… is both disgraceful and insulting… 1.4 per cent won’t buy even a small cup of coffee. In fact, it leaves PSWs in the position where they might be better off manning a drive-through window… $18,423 a year, just below the poverty line for a single adult in Ontario… is the average yearly income of PSWs.. as well as being many clients’ lifeline, PSWs are the grunts in the medical system’s battle to reduce costs
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, women
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Parliament finally shines a light on the politics of inequality
The majority report calls on the federal government to “formally review the WITB to determine how it could be expanded or modified to further benefit Canadians.”… “to make early childhood education and child care more accessible and affordable in all areas of the country, including through increased support for affordable early childhood and education and care programs.”… [and to] address… the needs of Aboriginal Peoples, especially in the area of education.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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Whatever the Supreme Court rules, it’s time to end prostitution
Prostitution creates a second class of women – disproportionately disadvantaged women and underaged girls that can be bought and sold. The fact that most enter as minors, were sexually abused as kids, and many are Aboriginal is haunting. Legalizing prostitution would legitimize their sexual exploitation by men… decriminalizing/legalizing prostitution has been a flawed social experiment…
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, poverty, rights, women, youth
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Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? Yes, it is
… it’s not just the industry minister’s comment that is insensitive. It is the whole Conservative “blame the victims” ethos… in the country that he is responsible for helping to run… more than 833,000 people went to a food bank this year because the economy he is supervising has been shedding wellpaying jobs and replacing them with part-time, minimum-wage jobs.
Tags: budget, economy, poverty, standard of living, women
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The law, and history, speak for themselves [wife abuse]
… a woman is killed every six days in Canada by her male partner or former partner. Family courts cannot be relied upon to keep batterers away from women’s children — far from it. Welfare rates and policies force women back into the arms of abusers, our shelters are bursting, turning away women and children every day in this country, and the independent women’s movement… is under attack by government and in the media.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, mental Health, women
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Past Yellen and Lagarde, women still have a long way to go
The pace of closing the gender gap has been so incredibly slow that… it would take Canadian women 228 years to catch up with men on those four core factors… This is a moral issue, of course. But practically, it has been and continues to be a drag on human progress to deny half the population full participation in society.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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CAUT Statement on December 6 [Violence against Women]
This past twelve months we have witnessed our federal government’s continued failure to develop a national action plan to end violence against women in Canada. Despite support at the meeting of provincial ministers this past summer, the Conservative government has yet to agree to launch a national investigation into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in our country.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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