Pay Equity committee  Thank you. Thank you very much for making it possible for me to participate in this important discussion. I am going to focus on five points that I think are becoming of increasing importance as the continued existence and growth of various wage gaps has been more and more compl

Pay Equity committee  On the question of other countries, I would say that it would be useful to have a close look at Sweden and Norway. They were pioneers in taking the steps that have to be taken—child care, early childhood education, anti-discrimination laws, and so on. I warn you that no country i

Pay Equity committee  On proactive responsibilities, I agree that it should start with the largest employers first, but I think there also needs to be some mechanism to empower people who are at the whim of their employer in defining the comparable groups to invoke some sort of outside expertise in so

Pay Equity committee  The correlation simply is this. In the case of a couple, when it comes to deciding who's going to go into paid work and who's going to do unpaid work, the person who's pegged to go into the paid work will be the person who can earn the higher income. Because that's disproportiona

Pay Equity committee  Yes. I actually did a research project looking at what would happen economically if all of those laws were repealed. The result was that it would immediately increase women's average incomes by over $3,000 per year simply by virtue of the way it would leave the individual tax tra

Pay Equity committee  As a quick reference, Heidi Hartmann in the United States has been involved in some very large-scale studies that have compared on the one hand an overhaul of an entire public sector workforce—for example, a whole state in the United States—and on the other, both the costs and th

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm very happy to be here and that this issue is the focus of this study, because women's economic inequality is one of the biggest problems Canada faces today. To remind people who don't remember, between 1995 and 1999, Canada was ranked number one in the whole world

Status of Women committee  First of all, speaking of people who do provide unpaid work in the form of care for older persons, they are often themselves older persons, just not quite as old. Extensive research has demonstrated that in Canada specifically, women, even from their mid-40s, are more vulnerable

Status of Women committee  The federal compliance mechanisms for universities have no teeth. I cannot even get access to the pay equity figures for my own faculty. I have to get them from my dean. If my dean doesn't want to give them to me, then I can't see them.

Status of Women committee  That is not correct. Pension income splitting is something that is absolutely all the way up to 50% of total pension income. The only sort of—

Status of Women committee  No. No, you may be thinking of the parental income splitting mechanism that was in effect for only a short time.

Status of Women committee  The $2,000 cap would be for the other form of pension income splitting, which is available with respect to a pension credit—

Status of Women committee  —but I'm talking about pension income splitting, which goes all the way up to 50% of total income—

Status of Women committee  —received from pension sources, from the top income earner.

Status of Women committee  Those figures are all the percentages of women's incomes compared to the same men they graduated with in the same programs. That is not affected by changes in the gross number of dollars achieved; these are percentage figures. Women's income earnings relative to those of the men