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Archive for 'gender critique'

Women On Top, By the Numbers

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we ask: Are more women making it to the top in Canada? And what does that mean for the 100 per cent? The 2013 edition, by the numbers. (All data are most recently available statistics.) 1 out of 5: 21 per cent of the people in the top [...]

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under gender critique, income, inequality, social indicators, super-rich, wages, women.
March 8th, 2013
Comments: none

Budget Bill and the Federal Contractors Program

So many big changes are happening in Bill C-38 that some significant issues like the changes to the Federal Contractors Program (FCP) have escaped attention.  Part 4 Division 42 of C-38 is very short.  It merely says that subsection 42(2) of the Employment Equity Act is replaced by the following: “The Minister is responsible for [...]

Posted by Marjorie Griffin Cohen under budgets, gender critique, inequality.
May 31st, 2012
Comments: 4

Courting the Women’s Vote in 2011

Every party is courting the women’s vote. They are The Undecided – more women than men are still parking their vote. That’s typical of most elections. Women listen for longer, decide later in an election campaign. When the time comes, they will be the kingmakers, if you’ll pardon the term. It leaps to mind because [...]

Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under Conservative government, development, gender critique, inequality, media, women.
April 21st, 2011
Comments: 4

The Gender Wage Gap Revisited

Statscan have released their regular (about every 5 years) statistical compilation, Women in Canada. In a box in the earnings section – around Table 20- one will find a short summary of a paper by Michael Baker and Statscan employee  Marie Drolet from the December, 2010 issue of Canadian Public Policy. Entitled “The Gender Wage [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under gender critique, wages, women.
February 8th, 2011
Comments: 3

CBC on Discrimination – appearance

I just had a telling experience with the CBC in Vancouver. Their show “On the Coast” was doing a piece on the discriminatory experience of a young women who applied for a job at Joey Restaurants. She went through their training period (which consisted largely of tips about how to dress and apply makeup), but [...]

Posted by Marjorie Griffin Cohen under BC, employment standards, gender critique, women.
June 2nd, 2010
Comments: 5

Economic Thought from a Feminist – Greed, Lust & Gender

I am highly recommending Nancy Folbre’s new book, Greed, Lust & Gender: A History of Economic Ideas. It has a slightly racy title (at least for an economics book) and my initial reaction was that the ‘lust’ focus was a bit forced and seemed to be pandering to the need to sell. Greed and gender [...]

Posted by Marjorie Griffin Cohen under economic thought, gender critique.
June 1st, 2010
Comments: 2