Status of Women committee  Thank you. I would like to slightly change the focus of the discussion that I gather has been going on in this study project. I have heard the Status of Women Canada officers speak about the three pillars that will, if properly constructed, lead to equality for women in Canada

Status of Women committee  I can be, I think not surprisingly, specific, because the big barrier here is the most invisible one, and that is the unpaid work that is still assigned to women by virtue of their gender. I agree that the pillar of domestic violence relates directly to it, because domestic viole

Status of Women committee  I think so, but the failure to feel free to confide in employers is very much a function of the fact that most of the young women in that age group have incurred school debt upwards of $50,000, to get that law degree or that MBA while they're still in their twenties. They know, b

Status of Women committee  On the question of paid and unpaid work, it's not the valuation of the unpaid work that matters. There are some ways in which that figure is used but not in the context I am talking about, that being the structural barriers to women's paid work and their involvement in non-tradit

Status of Women committee  I'll just make one quick response. A very respected human rights officer in India, after holding that position for years, decided that actually the number one biggest thing that could be done in India to solve that problem, and not just in non-traditional employment but women's a

Status of Women committee  Statistically it's absolutely clear. For about five years now the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, has repeatedly pointed out that Canada is the most efficient in the industrialized countries in terms of providing adequate levels of child care, and

Status of Women committee  Certainly the concept of choice reflects an implicit assumption that other choices can be made and that the person making the choice is rational. I think it is rational to a certain extent in a country that has made it clear it has absolutely no concern for how women are going to

Status of Women committee  That's right. The less regulation there has been, the less equality has been mandated through legislation, the more pronounced these imbalances in hiring have become. That's why since 2001-02 wage disparities in the percentages of women in various employment sectors have been det

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for this opportunity to address these extremely important issues. I would like to go directly to my main point, which is that the changes that are being made to the census are a failure on a massive scale and at a fundamental level of Canada's commitment to c

Status of Women committee  I will share a personal, direct experience that might shed some light on that. First of all, as Dr. MacDonald mentioned, it takes time for peer-reviewed, data-based research, which is usually funded from grants, etc., to get up, running, be executed, and published. So there is al

Status of Women committee  Just a quick comment. I've already been talking to Statistics Canada officers who are responsible for different programs I rely very heavily on and they're basically saying they don't have a clue. They truly don't know. There's no plan in place. Statistics Canada's budget has b

Status of Women committee  Professor, not Doctor.

Status of Women committee  Could I just add that there's a lot of detail that goes with this, but this is the only question that has ever been removed from the census since Confederation after it has only been used for a couple of cycles. No other question has ever been so attacked in each consultation per

Status of Women committee  Both.

Status of Women committee  I tried to list all of the ways and I really ran out of space. The most important application that lawyers and law students need to know about is how to adequately prepare, identify, and deal with expert testimony in a whole range of cases. Socio-economic data is one of the key