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The Globe seems rather agitated about the plight of male university students . On top of a front page story by Elizabeth Church yesterday pointing out the now rather well known fact that female undergraduate enrollment now outstrips male enrollment by a margin of 58% to 42%, they editorialize today as follows:
“Indira Samarasekera, the president [...]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under labour market, women.
December 8th, 2009
Comments: 14
I purchase a monthly unadjusted Labour Force Survey data series from StatsCan that provides monthly labour force trends by age, sex, province, and type of job (full-time, part-time, by industry, and by status – self-employed or employed). This is a helpful addition to the published monthly stats in The Daily, which use seasonally adjusted [...]
Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under Statscan, economic crisis, labour market, recession, unemployment, women.
November 6th, 2009
Comments: 5
PEF member Salimah Valiani has written a report, released today by No One is Illegal, on the topic of temporary migrant workers in Canada, and a quiet but important shift in our immigration policies. The full report can be downloaded here and the abstract follows:
This report elaborates the shift in immigration policy which began unfolding [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under immigration, labour market, women.
February 24th, 2009
Comments: 1
From Kathleen Lahey, a Law professor at Queen’s University:
Budget 2009:
Designed to Leave Women Behind – Again
The big picture:Â Â Â Women make up slightly more than half the population of Canada, and are directly responsible for caring for the majority of minor children in the country on a day to day basis.
The expectation:   As an ‘economic recovery’ [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under federal budget, stimulus, women.
January 31st, 2009
Comments: 8
I just got back from a week in New York City with my wife, in which, among other things, we went to see five Broadway shows (I know the best way to get cheap tickets now). It was during the intermission to Rent that it finally hit me that something must be done about a [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under inequality, women.
May 4th, 2008
Comments: 4
 The CLC today released - on the eve of International Women’s Day - a major report on women and economic equality.  I’ll be presenting it at the PEF meetings in June.
The report flags a question which is not posed often or clearly enough - why has the pay (and wider opportunity) gap between women and [...]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under women.
March 7th, 2008
Comments: 3
A recent StatsCan research paper by Marc Frenette and Simon Coulombe “Has Higher Education Among Young Women Substantially Reduced the Gender Gap in Employment and Earnings?” (Analytical Research Paper Series. June, 2007) contains some rather startling data.
http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/11F0019MIE/11F0019MIE2007301.htm
The paper looks at employment and earnings for young men and women aged 25 to 29, in each of [...]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under wages, women.
October 16th, 2007
Comments: none