Gender Equality Reading Roundup: July 29, 2019

Start your week right by staying up to date on the latest gender equality news in Canada. Here are the headlines that caught our attention last week.

Foundation features: We talked emotional tax, diversity at work, and upcoming election issues for women and girls in Canada

• • The ‘emotional tax’ Canadian people of colour carry at work
  • Canada’s top firms show ‘disappointing’ data gap on gender, minorities
  • Women splitting their vote more among various progressive options, says Bricker

New data on gender-based violence that could help us stop it

• Thousands of Canadian transit passengers target of sexual violence between 2013 and 2017, Globe analysis finds
• How advancements in technology affect domestic violence

When it’s all work, and no pay

• Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do
• Only 1% of gender equality funding is going to women’s organisations – why?
• Disparity between men’s and women’s athletics is deeper than just equal pay

Showing changemaker leadership

• Want more women in politics? Try a campaign school, councillor says
• Meet the Mi’kmaw lawyer who hopes her national book club helps turn the page toward reconciliation

Learn More:

• New Technology Can Be Used To Abuse Women
• Girls Got Game Goes Global
• Taking the Race for Gender Equality to the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon!

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