Thank you very much.
Evidence of meeting #14 for Status of Women in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was gba.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #14 for Status of Women in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was gba.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:25 p.m.
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Radboud University, As an Individual
I could jump in if there is time. You were talking about budgetary decisions and infrastructure. If you were to include gendered knowledge of economic policy, you would have a different notion of investment, including investment in the care economy and an awareness of the downward pressures from the state cutting back on welfare policies and social services. That has an impact on women's incomes. It certainly hits women of lower social class, and in Europe, of different ethnic minorities. The differences are very significant, but if you don't do any kind of gendered analysis of your economic policy, all of that just goes completely unnoticed.
5:25 p.m.
NDP
Sheila Malcolmson NDP Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
Ms. Rowan-Campbell, is there anything to add from your side?
5:25 p.m.
As an Individual
I would say that one of the initiatives we took from Canada to the world and developing countries was really looking at women, motherhood, safety, and welfare. But it was taken completely out of the context of all of the factors that really affect women, such as getting pregnant, going through pregnancy, prenatal care, aftercare, and the need for work. It focused on one very tiny aspect of women's lives, and I think it was not as effective as it might have been had gender analysis of the program been undertaken before it was initiated.
5:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
Thank you so much.
I want to thank Dr. Hankivsky, Dr. Hanson, Dr. Cavaghan, and Ms. Rowan-Campbell for joining us today. Your intelligence and experience in this area have been most helpful to us.
For the committee members, I will excite you by telling you that on Tuesday we will have visitors with us, remotely from New Zealand and Belgium, so we'll be able to hear what's going on in those places in the world—and potentially, Health Canada as well. Unfortunately, the Department of Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces were not available to meet with us, but we'll have an exciting day Tuesday. On Thursday we will begin to draft the report, so start writing your ideas down.
Thanks so much for your attention today.
5:30 p.m.
NDP
Sheila Malcolmson NDP Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
Madam Chair, what reason was given by the witnesses who refused our invitation?
5:30 p.m.
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Andrea McCaffrey
Mostly, it had to do with scheduling conflicts. Their expert witnesses were unavailable until after our deadline for this report; so, unfortunately, they are not able to attend.
5:30 p.m.
Conservative