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Honouring reproductive rights and freedoms
The 2024 Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues Honouree: The Women’s Health Clinic With reproductive rights being a central issue in the upcoming US election, the work of the Women’s…
First person power
How the Internet popularized the memoir and smashed open a space for feminist writers All writing is political. Whether or not it is about politics doesn’t matter. From historical novels to children’s…
Beyond Recovery Data Dashboard
Women’s economic standing in Canada in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic The Beyond Recovery data dashboard presents up-to-date information on women’s economic standing in Canada in the aftermath of…
Questions and Answers: Pay Equity in Manitoba
Pay Equity – Uwase PDFDownload A primer on Pay Equity in Manitoba The gender pay gap is the amount of money earned by women for every dollar earned by men….
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. Millions were working in public-facing jobs…
Beyond Recovery: The pandemic’s heavy toll on women in Canada
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A timeline: The pandemic’s impact on women in the workforce
March 2020: COVID-19 strikes, massive job losses The COVID-19 pandemic upended women’s economic gains, wiping out 35 years of progress in two short months. Between February and April 2020, a…
The Monitor – Summer 2024
Beyond Recovery: The pandemic’s heavy toll on women in Canada In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit home, the walls rapidly closed in—especially for women. Some lost their job…
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 today have not yet recovered,…
Work in progress
Download this Report Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 35 years of women’s economic gains in two short months. At the height of the lockdown, women were working 27 per cent…
Alliance report unites self-employed workers and solo-entrepreneurs
About two years ago I agreed to work on building a broad coalition for the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC). It is the only chamber of commerce in Canada…
Cooking, cleaning, and caring
A detailed look at the how migrant and immigrant women in low-wage essential sectors in Nova Scotia experienced the COVID-19 pandemic Executive summary Relative to many other provincial jurisdictions in…
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