The Facts: Gender Equality and Gender Justice
What is gender equality?
UN Women explains gender equality as “equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities” for all genders. It doesn’t mean that everyone should be the same. It means peoples’ rights, responsibilities, and opportunities shouldn’t depend on their gender. It implies that the interests and needs of everybody, in all their diversities, are important. It’s not a “women’s issue.” It’s everyone’s issue, and it makes life better for all of us.
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women and girls killed by violence in 20221.5+ million
women live in poverty in Canada10x
more women than men in Canada have fallen out of the labour force since 202089 cents
what women working full-time and part-time make for every dollar men make$150 billion
possible in incremental GDP growth if Canada accelerated progress on gender equality30th place
Canada’s 2023 Global Gender Gap Index ranking, out of 146 countriesBenchmarks gender-based gaps in economic participation/opportunity, educational attainment, health, and survival, and political empowerment (World Economic Forum, 2023).
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Gender Pay Gap
How it’s calculated, root causes and impacts, law and policy, motherhood penalty …
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Women and Pandemics
Gendered impacts of the pandemic, job losses, increased gender-based violence, economics, women leaders, mothers …
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Gender-Based Violence
Intimate partner violence, violence against women, domestic violence, affects on children …
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Sexual Assault and Harassment
Sexual assault rates, workplace harassment, consent, reporting, sexual violence prevention …
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Women and Leadership
Women in leadership, politics, board members, barriers, challenges …
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Gendered Digital Hate, Harassment, and Violence
Tech-facilitated gender-based violence and cyberviolence, hate crimes, root causes, rates, impacts, policy and legislation, impacts in politics and media …
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#MeToo Movement in Canada
Challenging sexual violence, social media movement, viral reporting, support survivors …
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Barriers for Girls
Ages 9 to 13, mental health, stereotypes, sexualization, empowerment, belonging …
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Intersectional Feminism in Canada
Terminology, intersectionality, Gender-Based Analysis Plus, allyship …
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