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Making Women Count
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.
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Close pay gap between men and women: report
TORONTO – A new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-Ontario) report challenges the Ontario government to take 10 steps to close the province’s persistent pay…
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Hennessy’s Index: April 2013
Canada’s Pay Gap Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For…
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Governing Motherhood
Who Pays and Who Profits? Download 0 bytes14 pages In this report from CCPA-NS, Phyllis Rippeyoung argues that the increasing pressures put on mothers to…
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The BC disadvantage for women
Women in BC may well decide who becomes the next premier. According to a recent Ipsos Reid poll, most are not inclined to support Christie…
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Women’s earnings in BC lag national average: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the earnings of women in BC…
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BC Disadvantage for Women
Earnings Compared with Other Women in Canada Download
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Abortion and Women’s Rights
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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Speaking Truth to Power
A reader on Canadian women’s inequality Download 166.64 KB126 pages Contributors: Pat Armstrong * Sheila Copps * Eve-Lyne Couturier * Shelagh Day * Jane Doe…
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Fact Sheets on Women’s Poverty
Women’s Poverty and the Recession This series of fact sheets is based on the report Women’s Poverty and the Recession by Monica Townson (September 2009), and…
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Women’s Poverty and the Recession
Download 662.41 KB54 pages This report by researcher Monica Townson draws attention to Canada’s shockingly high rates of women’s poverty and offers a strong critique…
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Where Are the Women?
Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Public Policy Download 206.23 KB146 pages Contemporary Canadian fiscal and social policy reforms have been accompanied by the progressive disappearance…
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