Thank you.
I think the reason this impacts senior women is that if they have been working part time or not working in the paid workforce for a lot of those years, they do not have a sufficient pension. Even CPP with all of these things like OAS and GIS is very difficult to live off of. If you've been out of the paid workforce performing unpaid care for many decades, the impacts on you as a senior woman are going to be far worse, especially if you are a single senior woman. That's one thing.
The other side of that is that we're seeing the gaps in unpaid care. A lot of women actually rely on their mothers to take care of their children because they cannot afford to pay for child care, for example. You have the financial implications for senior women of a lifetime of being underemployed or unemployed in the paid workforce, but also we're seeing more and more that a lot of working-age women rely on their mothers to provide that unpaid care.
I hope that answers your question.