We haven't done any gender analysis of programs. We're still, as I mentioned earlier, beginning our fourth round of interviews, and then we're beginning a phase of beginning to analyse and see where some of the gaps are. We're just seeing clearly in our data and in the stories of women over the last three years how programs are not taking into account the fact that they are single mothers responsible for their children.
The example that always comes to mind is of training programs that are offered through the Ontario Works program. In Ontario, the majority of programs that are open to these women do not take them out of poverty. It's very different in a two-wage family or if you're not responsible for children. When you have children and it's your income and that's it, a program that leads you to a job that pays $10 to $12 an hour, and is quite often precarious work as well, is not going to take you out of poverty. We feel those programs have not taken into account the fact that the majority of people accessing them are women responsible for the care of their children. That's one obvious example that we're seeing over and over again in our data.
As well, we didn't purposefully go looking for women who have left abusive relationships, but over and over again what we're seeing is that a majority of women in poverty are there because they've experienced abuse, and then the supports are not built in over the long run for their working through the issues and getting into training programs. There's no accounting for the fact that they've lived in an abusive relationship for ten years and they don't just get up and go to work the next day. So those are a few of the examples we're seeing. We'll have more. We'll be able to take a look more analytically at the end.