Status of Women committee  Through the chair, I think that is an excellent way of putting it. There has to be a gender analysis to ensure that there isn't a gender bias and that we're not blind to gender or creating systems that are gender-neutral that will ultimately actually create disparity in funding a

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Through the chair, investment in the non-profit sector and women's organizations is really critical. We do not yet fund them appropriately to actually pay appropriate wages. Some funding formulas work out so that you have higher rates of pay for some sectors than for

Status of Women committee  Was that question directed to me?

Status of Women committee  Thank you. The consequences are very real. What we see is that women can't escape fast enough. They don't have the resources and the means because they have no access to their finances. They live under threat, trying to figure out how to navigate the system. In women's shelter

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. In the STEM and the skilled trades spaces, there hasn't been the investment made in making them safe spaces and inviting for women. What we're seeing in engineering alone is that we have graduation groups that are about 40% women. I think at McMaster this year, half

Status of Women committee  Through the chair, thank you very much for the question. I think there is a lot more work that we need to do to get this national child care program rolled out properly. The wage floor issue is a critical one for us in Ontario, and I know it's affecting other provinces as well.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and members, for the invitation to speak to you about women’s economic empowerment. My special thanks to parliamentary secretary Lisa Hepfner, our local Hamilton MP. Every year at YWCA Hamilton, we serve over 10,000 women, gender-diverse people and famili