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Higher education brings security, higher wages, especially for men
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Dec. 14, 2011
The relative earnings of those with a university education in Canada and Ontario are higher than the OECD average, but the degree of difference varies by age and gender… In Ontario, the apparent value of a university education is much greater for men than for women: compared to their male counterparts with high school or non-post-secondary qualifications, men with higher education earn 150 per cent more, while women have a 68 per cent earnings edge. And women with higher education still earn only 61 per cent of what men with a comparable education make.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living, women
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The road to higher female employment?
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Dec. 14, 2011
In 1997… Quebec introduced a universal early childhood education policy. This provided heavily subsidised childcare for all children up to the age of four. In 2010/11 this cost the Quebec government $2.1bn, or $10,000 (£6,180) per subsidised place. Between 1996 and 2008 the maternal employment rate for women with children under six in Quebec increased by 11 percentage points to 74 per cent. A large proportion of the increase was from women with low-level qualifications. Canadian researchers have estimated that for every dollar spent by the government on childcare, it received $1.05 back in tax revenues.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Women still owed wage parity
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Dec. 5, 2011
Sure, women have seen advances… Statistics Canada reported last year that between 1997 and 2007, the proportion of women matching or exceeding their husbands’ earnings climbed to 42% from 37%. But crunch the numbers differently, and the figures tell a much different story. In 2007, Canadian women brought home an average of $43,000; men earned $60,300. Put another way: women earned an average of 71.4% of men.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
Posted in Equality Debates | 2 Comments »
B.C. judge upholds Canada’s polygamy laws
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Nov 23 2011
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld Canada’s current laws on polygamy finding that there is reasonable belief that women and children are harmed in polygamous marriages and that the keeping polygamy illegal minimally impairs religious freedom… “… this case is essentially about harm,” wrote Chief Justice Robert Baumann… “This includes harm to women, to children, to society and to the institution of monogamous marriage.”
Tags: rights, women
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How can we best care for our aging population?
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
November 20, 2011
… except for a few modest tax measures or programs (such as the compassionate care leave available through the employment insurance program), there is no national policy addressing family members (or others) caring for disabled older adults in Canada… We need to establish a comprehensive home-care system that links and partners with informal caregivers and community organizations to form a support network for informal caregivers and care recipients that is integrated into the overall health-care system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Crime bill unfairly targets women, aboriginals, critics say
Friday, October 21st, 2011
Oct. 20, 2011
The majority of women in jail are mothers, and they are usually the primary caregivers in their families… Elements of the new bill will result in more women being held behind bars… “It’s going to increase criminalization and marginalization, and this will certainly have a very negative impact on children,” Booth said. “No one’s really speaking about the impact (on) children when mom and dad are in jail, particularly for aboriginal people and for women… The crime bill means “taxes will need to be raised in order to care for children”…
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, women
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Medicine’s feminine mystique
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Oct 18 2011
… knowledge, discovered within the past decade, is forcing the medical profession to look at aging women differently… and it’s welcome news that ways are being found to treat women differently. Women don’t yet have equal opportunity in the boardroom. But when it comes to some illnesses, they get more than their share. It’s high time that science reflected that.
Tags: Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, women
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Midwives push childbirth as campaign issue
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Sep 21 2011
… both the Liberals and New Democrats say they support the notion of freestanding birth centres. The centres would be run by midwives and give women who have low-risk pregnancies the option of delivering babies in a more natural setting away from hospitals… Birth centres were not part of party platforms released previously by either party. But in response to the midwives’ survey, the Liberals said they “support piloting birth centres in Ontario and are open to exploring the possibilities for this model.”
Tags: Health, women
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Few cracks in the glass ceiling
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Sep 04 2011
A new Conference Board of Canada study shows that women’s advancement to the top echelons of business came to a dead halt in the mid-1980s. It has been stalled ever since… The mainstream think-tank did not call for a radical shakeup of corporate culture… It merely stressed that “fostering gender diversity is a natural extension of good business practice.” … the report does serve one valuable purpose. It shatters the long-standing myth that time corrects gender equities. It’s true that a few female stars have cracked the glass ceiling. But the path to the top is still blocked for most women.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, rights, women
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The education of Tim Hudak on full-day K
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Aug 24 2011
Hudak had reflexively opposed full-day K when Premier Dalton McGuinty acted on the recommendation of his early-learning adviser, Charles Pascal… He refused to commit to any future rollout. It wasn’t just a matter of money — $1.4 billion a year by 2014 — but ideology and politics. Instead, Hudak held out a classic Tory alternative: putting cash in parents’ hands… A PC survey asked voters about scrapping full-day K to “provide parents with direct financial support to allow them to choose the child-care option that works best for them.” The answer came back that Ontarians actually liked full-day K.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, standard of living, women
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