Making Women Count Project
It’s time to close the gender gap
Making Women Count measures the size of Canada’s gender gap and offers solutions to the inequalities that persist between women and men in Canada. Closing the gender gap in Canada will provide a significant engine for long-term economic growth, as well as an immediate increase in the social and economic well-being of women, girls and gender-diverse people in Canada.
Fairness, equality, justice for women and gender-diverse people
- Tracking women’s COVID-19 pandemic recovery
- Making the case for equal pay
- Valuing the care economy
- Closing the gender pay gap
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Price of inaction
Ontario’s gender pay gap growing READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO–The pay gap between men and women in Ontario is getting worse and will continue…
A Growing Concern
Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap Download 709.56 KB35 pages Last year, the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario…
Ontario’s Gender Gap
Women and Jobs Post-Recession Download 353.84 KB21 pages A recovery strategy that aims to put Ontario back where it was in 2007 means no progress…
We need more than words to end violence against women
It’s easier to think that violence is something that happens to someone else—in a different country, a different community, a different home. But the truth…
Income Splitting in Canada
Inequality by Design Download 613.43 KB26 pages This study examines the cost and the distributional impact of three income splitting scenarios: pension income splitting; income…
Le fractionnement du revenu favorise les mieux nantis, selon une étude
Ottawa – Quatre-vingt-six pourcent (86%) des familles Canadiennes ne bénéficieront en rien du fractionnement du revenu que le gouvernement fédéral entend mettre en place selon…
Income splitting is a tax gift to Canada’s rich: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Eighty-six percent of Canadian families would gain no benefit from the proposed Conservative income splitting plan, says a…
The Gap in the Gender Gap
Violence Against Women in Canada Download 1.18 MB 46 pages This study finds that progress on ending violence against women in Canada is stalled by…
Canada lacks coherent response to end violence against women: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA— Progress on ending violence against women in Canada is stalled by the absence of a coherent national policy and…
Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study…
Closing Canada’s Gender Gap
Year 2240 Here We Come! Download 301.74 KB10 pages This study looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between men and women over the…
10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap
Download 416.87 KB26 pages This report finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased levels of education…
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