The implementation of this legislation will ensure that women in Canada will be able to count on equal pay for work of equal value, which is long overdue for many women. We know that this inequality has had real effects on their careers, their livelihoods, and their mental well-being. As we are trying to navigate through this pandemic, we have seen that it has impacted women more than men. For full recovery, we need to have a “she-covery”.
Minister, can you please speak to how pay equity will impact particularly senior women, women of colour and minority women in Canada? In those cases, the gap is even higher as compared to men. Many of them have been impacted the most by the lack of pay equity. Can you please speak to how it will help them?