Possibilities of Gender Equality Policies
Article 3: Girls can stay in school to help empower your female classmates to also stay in school and fight for your right to access sexual and reproductuve health services
Canada already has policies in place to ensure that the countries budget is subject to gender based analysis to ensure that the government continues to deliver change. Gender based analysis examines how different tax and spending measures affect men and women differently. Increase taxes to improve access to reprroductive health , maternal healthcare , schooling for girls , clean water. By giving women equal pay the GDP will increase and the economy and society will benefit overall
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Policies Canada has in place:
The canada child benefit
Investments in early learning and child care to
The promoscience program to encourage young girls to get interested in STEM
The urban indigenous strategy
The employment insurance caregiving benefit
More mothers are needed to increase birth rate and population for the future
the new 2017 budget will have both gender based analysis
Canada has already started various initiatives that help address and potentially solve gender based challenges. There are still major gender imbalances in the innovation and research sphere, where women continue to be underrepresented in STEM, both at universities and colleges. The PromoScience Program funds organizations that offer young people—from junior kindergarten up to grade 12—opportunities to participate in activities known to build engagement, interest, skills and knowledge in STEM. These activities are very popular for young girls, due to their rapid love of STEM
Women with children are less represented and face additional challenges
On average women make 24% less than men in the workplace
income tax cuts has not reached 38 percent of woman in Canada and 27 percent of men
A higher proportion of women are in the labour force in Canada than in the U.S
by improving education it can help close the gender gap
- Equal Pay Policy
given less child support, less opportunities, do more unpaid work
less likely to be in workforce
women take up only 26% of senior management in private sector
Don't get good wages, less benefits, pensions, paid vacations more unemployed
Having budgets that provide equal benefits for men and women. This will allow the economy to grow.
wage gap has narrowed a lot but is still evident
by closing the gap this means that there will be more tax money
Canadian Women are now among the most educated women in the world
In 2016 an average of 75% of Canadian Women ages 25-64 had a post-secondary education, whereas around 70% of men had a post secondary education
they are encoraging women into the paid labor force
maternity leave and less in-demand degrees held by women are factors in the wage gap
Article 3: If you are a man or a boy you can work along side women and girls to acheive gender equality and embrace healthy respectful relationships
Canada was among to top 4 countries with the largest percentage wage gap in 2013
Canada's goals: more equal wages and increased labour market participation for both women and men.
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you can fund education campaigns