Status of Women committee  We understand.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I am very pleased to be here today and to have an opportunity to speak to you about the work being done at the Policy and External Relations branch. Advancing gender equality is a shared responsibility, and we promote gender as a cross-cutting theme that needs to be

Status of Women committee  I would just like to point out that Status of Women Canada has always been in favour of the idea of documenting unpaid work and has continuously recorded it. We recognize the importance of women's unpaid work and how valuable it is to the Canadian society as a whole. We strongly

Status of Women committee  As data users, we turn to the experts at Statistics Canada. As we said earlier, the sixth edition ofWomen in Canada will include a chapter on the issue of unpaid work, going into more depth than previous editions. We rely on Statistics Canada's expertise to be directed towards th

Status of Women committee  Unpaid work will be discussed in the chapter on family status and time use. So far we're still waiting to receive the data from the general social survey. StatsCan can speak to that. The data will be released later on. We haven't yet undertaken the discussion about the content of

Status of Women committee  We are trying to use the most rigorous and relevant data possible. We are relying on the expertise of our colleagues at Statistics Canada to direct us to sources of data most likely to document the situation. Right now, we are being told that the sources of data we are going to

Status of Women committee  Yes, Status of Women Canada tries to understand the situation of all women in Canadian society, in all their diversity and in all regions. We know that women are not a homogenous group and that it is essential to consider the many aspects of the contributions of various groups of

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the invitation to come and appear with the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to share with you the work of the Agency in promoting equality for women, and women's full participation in the economic, social and democr