| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| news releases
The COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in the very systems designed to keep people safe. It has created unprecedented challenges for those experiencing gender-based violence and the organizations that provide supports and services to them.
| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| news releases
The COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in the very systems designed to keep people safe. It has created unprecedented challenges for those experiencing gender-based violence and the organizations that provide supports and services to them.
| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| news releases
The COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in the very systems designed to keep people safe. It has created unprecedented challenges for those experiencing gender-based violence and the organizations that provide supports and services to them.
| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| news releases
The COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in the very systems designed to keep people safe. It has created unprecedented challenges for those experiencing gender-based violence and the organizations that provide supports and services to them.
| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| news releases
The COVID‑19 pandemic has highlighted gaps in the very systems designed to keep people safe. It has created unprecedented challenges for those experiencing gender-based violence and the organizations that provide supports and services to them.
Today marks the start of Women’s History Month in Canada, a time to celebrate women and girls, past and present, who have helped build a better, more inclusive Canada and celebrate progress towards gender equality.
| 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+).
| 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.
| Women and Gender Equality Canada
| backgrounders
Women and Gender Equality Canada 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.