Salma Zahid at the Status of Women Committee

On February 25th, 2020. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2020 / 11:55 a.m.

Liberal

Salma Zahid Liberal Scarborough Centre, ON

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thanks a lot to all of you for coming out today and for all the work that you do on this important issue of gender equality.

In your presentation, you mentioned the six pillars that are used to measure and monitor how we are moving towards gender equality. Economic participation and prosperity is one of them. When you measure economic participation and prosperity, is there any data you get specifically in regard to minority women or new immigrants?

I represent a riding where I come across a lot of new immigrant women, minority women, and they talk about the barriers they face. Is there any effort being made to address that?

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