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Backgrounder: Government of Canada announces investment in women’s organization in Ontario’s York Region

| Women and Gender Equality Canada | backgrounders

Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) works to advance equality for women by focusing its efforts in three priority areas: increasing women’s economic security and prosperity; encouraging women’s leadership and democratic participation; and ending gender-based violence. WAGE also plays a leadership role in the government-wide implementation of Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+).


Government of Canada announces investment in women’s organization in Ontario’s York Region

| Women and Gender Equality Canada | news releases

COVID-19 is a crisis unlike any other. It has hit women hardest with jobs lost and women taking on more unpaid work than they already were for their kids as well as their elders. Women are the majority of those on the front lines of the fight against COVID. That includes nurses, of course, but also personal support workers, other health care workers, child care workers, food sector workers and social workers.


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2017-05-26