Beyond Recovery

Toward a gender-just recovery
Beyond Recovery is working to support and advance a gender-just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The project’s goals are to document and analyze women’s experiences, with a particular focus on marginalized women in hard-hit sectors, and to provide evidence-based policy solutions. This project has been funded in part by Women and Gender Equality Canada.
Key Highlights:
- If we’re going to close the gap, we need government action.
- Low pay driving career changes among women workers.
- The crisis in the care economy shows no signs of letting up.
- Women’s earnings lag behind high inflation.
- The pandemic has accelerated the exit of older women workers.
- The racialized employment gap is narrowing but barriers persist.
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Beyond Recovery Data Dashboard
Women’s economic standing in Canada in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic
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When “survival” jobs become “essential” work
In the lexicon of immigrant settlement services, the term “survival jobs” is used to signal temporary employment intended to ensure survival in the short term,…
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Unequal pandemic, unequal recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020 not only threatened people’s health but exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequalities. Women bore the brunt.
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The Monitor – Summer 2024
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit home, the walls rapidly closed in—especially for women.
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Many women workers in Canada still feel economic upheavals of pandemic
OTTAWA— The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 35 years of women’s economic gains in two short months, and a significant number of women in the workforce…
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Cooking, cleaning, and caring
At three months [once her work permit had been secured], I convinced myself that I was an adolescent, even if I was 50 years old,…
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Free contraception is a win for all Canadians
“Right now, Canada is the only country with universal health care that does not offer coverage for prescription drugs, including contraceptives.
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A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery
“So, in March, during 2020, March 2020, on the 15th of March our schedule changed. And they told us that we don’t have any schedule…
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It’s time for the Canada Disability Benefit
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, it’s past time to lift people with disabilities out of poverty
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Still in recovery
If we’re going to close the gender gap, we need government action
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The real world bears little resemblance to Barbie Land
Mattel is laughing all the way to the bank. Women aren’t.
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Revitalizing the conditions of care in Manitoba
The outsized burden placed on continuing care workers by the pandemic has in many ways gotten heavier.
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