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A Quick Education in Pay Equity - Women's Economic Equality

Posted: Monday, 17 May 2010

Why do we need pay equity laws? The simple answer is that without laws (or unions fighting for higher wages), employers will pay as little as possible for wages. If they can get away with paying women less, they will. Until the 1950s, men and women wo… Read More

Reality Check: Women in Canada and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Fifteen Years On

Posted: Monday, 22 February 2010

Part One: Overall Achievements and Obstacles There has been a sharp decrease in institutional and political support by the Government of Canada for the promotion and protection of the human rights of women and girls during the period 2004 - 2009. This is … Read More

Women and Pensions

Posted: Thursday, 5 November 2009

Studies suggest women are at a significant disadvantage to men when it comes to pensions. Women still earn less than men, and are expected to shoulder unpaid caregiving responsibilities. Women are also concentrated in non-standard, poorly-paid jobs, wh… Read More

Link Research Publication - April 2009

Posted: Monday, 20 April 2009

Submissions to Parliament and Government of Canada Statement by the CLC to the House of Commons Standing Committee Regarding the Status of Women Study on Consequences and Effects the Current Employment Insurance (EI) Programs Have on Women in Canada. As M… Read More

Women's Economic Equality Fact Sheets

Posted: Thursday, 5 March 2009

Working Women: Still a Long Way from Equality While the gap between men’s and women’s wages did narrow from the 1970s, when women earned about two-thirds of the male dollar, the wage gap has stood at around 70% since then (70.5% for full-time, full-y… Read More

Pay Inequity: Canadian Labour Congress Analysis of the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act

Posted: Tuesday, 3 March 2009

I. Key messages This new legislation introduces the notion that women's work in the public sector should be valued according to prevailing market conditions in the private sector. It asserts a false equivalence between management and the union b… Read More

The 2008 Economic and Fiscal Statement and the Conservative plan to “Modernize” Pay Equity

Posted: Monday, 8 December 2008

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, in its highly controversial Economic and Fiscal Statement of November 2008, indicated it intended to "modernize" the pay equity law. This initiative raised more questions than it answered: To what extent would … Read More

Women in the Workforce: Still A Long Way from Equality

Posted: Monday, 5 May 2008

Introduction and Summary Some people see the issue of economic equality for women as rather outdated, out of tune with a supposed new world of opportunity that has opened up with higher education for women and a more equal division of work between women an… Read More

Gender Inequality and Precarious Work: Exploring the Impact of Unions Through the Gender and Work Database

Posted: Monday, 5 May 2008

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of unions on the pay of women and on pay inequality between women and men through the Gender and Work Database (GWD). The paper is highly empirical, and tries to use the Database, mainly deri… Read More

Income Splitting Would Worsen Inequality

Posted: Friday, 2 March 2007

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has made pension income divisible between spouses for tax purposes and has mused about making all income divisible for tax purposes. This latter proposal would benefit a wealthy minority at the expense of important public progr… Read More

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