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Kate McInturff
Love and spreadsheets
One of the most important revelations of my life came to me not when I was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. (From this I have learned one thing: cancer…
The best candidate for the job? Some real talk about the meritocracy
Ottawa City Councillor Diane Deans recently proposed the creation of a women’s bureau to support greater engagement of women in city politics. When questioned about the initiative Ottawa Mayor Jim…
Some baby steps for dad and big steps forward for women
The government promised us a budget guided by gender analysis this year, and they delivered: on pay equity, on supports for women entrepreneurs and, in the warm fuzzy afterglow of…
Paternity Leave: An Idea Whose Time has Come
More than 80% of men in Quebec take leave after their child is born. On average they take 5 weeks. In the rest of Canada, less than 30% of fathers…
A Deficit Worth Worrying About: The Gendered And Racialized Wage Gap
I was really hoping the recent release of Census data would bring good news: wage gap closed! Racial discrimination gone! Equality achieved! Not so much. Gaps in pay for women…
Fiscal update: Middle class children and those children working hard to join the middle class
In the 2015 election the Liberal Party platform stood out by promising to run a deficit in order to provide stimulus to a then slow-growing economy. They promised to spend…
The Good, The Best, and the Imperfect: Measuring the Gender Gap
Why put together an index of gender equality in Canada? Why rush in where my better colleagues have warned me not to tread? As these things so often do, it…
The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada 2017
The Gender Gap in Canada’s 25 Biggest Cities READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—This annual study provides a snapshot of the gaps in men and women’s access to economic security,…
Sense of the Census: Income, wage gaps, and poverty
New Census numbers released this week show that overall incomes have risen in the past ten years in Canada. This is excellent news. Economic growth driven by rising wages is…
Budget 2018: Time to lean in gentlemen
It’s that exciting time of year when economists wake from their summer slumber and start making submissions to the federal Finance Committee about what they’d like to see in Budget…
Why is it so hard to close the gender wage gap?
The wage gap is pretty easy to understand. I do a job. You do a job. I get paid more. You get paid less. Unfair. Especially if you and I…
The budget is a first step to better the lives of women in Canada
Men and women are different. That shouldn’t be news, but today it is. Today, the government released the first federal budget that includes a look at the differences between men…
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