Jessica Howard, Author at Canadian Women's Foundation

About Jessica Howard

Jessica Howard is Manager, Content and Web at the Canadian Women’s Foundation. Having worked as a journalist, blogger, content strategist and university instructor, she believes that storytelling is key to social change. As a mother of two sons, she is also highly knowledgeable about Lego, Star Wars and Superheroes.

Three Reasons Equal Pay Day Matters to All Canadians

Three Reasons Equal Pay Day Matters to All Canadians

Jessica Howard2017-12-19T16:31:17+00:00April 11, 2017|Women’s poverty|

Are you seeing red today? If so, that’s a good thing!

It’s Equal Pay Day, and the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition is calling on people to wear red to acknowledge that women are still “in the red” due to the gender wage gap.

Equal Pay Day marks the date that represents how far into this calendar year women must work to earn what men did in the last year. When you account for the gender wage gap, a woman in Ontario would have to work 15.5 months to earn what men earn in 12 months. That brings us to early April.

Mixed Messages: Ableism in Dating

Mixed Messages: Ableism in Dating

Jessica Howard2022-02-18T18:55:58+00:00March 20, 2017|Guest bloggers|

Ableism can be defined as systemic discrimination based on disability. You know, those encounters you have that make you feel bad about your disability, or those barriers that prevent you from having your needs or desires met.

Ableism shows up everywhere. And for women or femmes or gender non-binary people, sometimes it's hard to pinpoint whether it's misogyny, ableism, or a gnarly combination.

So how does ableism enter the dating world?

On International Women’s Day, How Are You Taking Bold Action?

On International Women’s Day, How Are You Taking Bold Action?

Jessica Howard2017-12-19T16:32:33+00:00March 8, 2017|Uncategorized|

Be bold for change!

That’s the rallying cry of this year’s International Women’s Day – an annual celebration of women’s achievements and a call to action for gender parity.

What’s inspiring us today is that we’re already seeing bold action on gender equality in Canada:

-Late last year, the government announced that civil rights activist Viola Desmond will be the first woman to appear on Canada’s $10 bill, a symbolic but significant recognition of women’s and African Canadians’ contributions to Canada.

This message is brought to you by #GirlPowered!

This message is brought to you by #GirlPowered!

Jessica Howard2017-12-19T16:34:18+00:00February 8, 2017|Empowering girls, Women in media|

The girl council has spoken!

A cross-Canadian group of girls has shortlisted the most powerful messages from the 1,500 submitted to girlpowered.ca. But, given the sheer volume and awesomeness of the submissions, it wasn’t an easy task.

“How am I going to pick?” asked Brenna, 12, as she and her fellow council members began poring over pages of messages, including “Follow your dreams, even the wild ones” and “Be the girl you look up to.”

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