Status of Women committee  First, to the second part, no. That's an easy one. If you look at pay equity—lots of people have articulated it better than I do—no. I think the point that women are still the heart of their families and of their communities shows that when you lift them up in terms of economic

Status of Women committee  The other area I do research in is domestic violence, and particularly the overlap of custody and divorce. So I think when you look at research—and this goes back to my point of it being socially constructed—you can look at it and see that divorce appears to be bad for kids and t

Status of Women committee  Sure. I like the point Ms. Stinson made about when we analyze opportunities or decisions or any kind of policy, not just doing it on an economic basis and whether you're talking about development in Goose Bay or whether you're talking about a whole new strategy or policy, really

Status of Women committee  The Canadian Women's Foundation is strongly committed to research-based practices, so when they began the Girls' Fund, they hired researchers to do a scan of work such as that coming out of the Resilience Research Centre and to look at what the factors are. The factors are leade

Status of Women committee  The part that the Canadian Women's Foundation does well is raise the money and identify the programs. It's the community partners and programs that really do the work. To go back to that example of the girls program in Fort McMurray, to echo what Ms. Stinson was saying, there's

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm obviously familiar with Dr. Ungar's work in the centre there. Really, we're talking about the same thing: that protective factors lead to resilient outcomes. I think there are assets or resiliency factors or protective factors—whatever you want to call them—that operate

Status of Women committee  Yes, we do a lot of work on that. To go back to the question earlier on the role of feminist research, I would add to Ms. Stinson's comments, which I thought were excellent, and just say that a lot of people don't understand that research, especially quantitative research, isn'

Status of Women committee  You know, I think you're missing a piece, which is about the hypersexualization of girls. Girls that age aren't talking about not doing their math homework because they want to look pretty for a boy; they're talking about this massive pressure that is driven by multi-billion-doll

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. In my research role I'm involved with a program called the Fourth R, which has developed school-based prevention programming that's in 2,000 schools around the country. As well, I have a Public Health Agency of Canada innovation strategy grant to work with communities

Status of Women committee  Okay. Right.

Status of Women committee  Protective factors are the opposite of risk factors. What it means for a developmental researcher is that if you look at two groups of youth who have different outcomes of interest—adolescent girls who were successful in school versus those who weren't—you can identify risk facto

Status of Women committee  Right, it's individual donors.

Status of Women committee  Yes. In the past year, Status of Women Canada funded a particular piece of work that the Canadian Women's Foundation did, but typically we do not go after government funding, so it's individual donors and corporate sponsors.

Status of Women committee  Who is on our big money list? It's very wide-ranging. We have a tremendous group of volunteers right across the country. One of our biggest partners has been Rogers Media and Chatelaine, and all of their different offshoots. There's a range of banks and of different groups. We ha

Status of Women committee  Yes. One of our campaigns was “Women Moving Women”, and we found 2,500 women across the country to commit $2,500 over five years to help move another woman and her family out of poverty. So there are different campaigns.