Status of Women committee  We have intervened in some equal access cases. Actually, our agency is currently in the middle of a reorganization. We haven't been on the job long. We haven't had time to review any cases since the Gaz Métro affair. We do a lot more one-on-one work and general awareness training

Status of Women committee  Yes. It might be public education when those people take francization courses in Quebec. It would be a question of making it clear that equality between men and women falls under the core values of Quebeckers, for example. That could be done in francization courses, but also by e

Status of Women committee  Actually, it has to do with the job sectors where women and girls who drop out find themselves. For example, those women work in hair salons, spas and any home-care jobs, as well as beneficiary attendants. Those sectors are very poorly paid. By comparison, boys who drop out can g

Status of Women committee  No. For example, it is extremely difficult to report cases of sexual, psychological or other harassment. The timelines are very short. For that reason alone, there should really be a reform of labour law. If we do a gender-based analysis, we can see that women are primarily affec

Status of Women committee  The answer is no.

Status of Women committee  I would like to share some comments that I have heard. In most cases, the women didn't actually know that those sectors even existed. So the goal is really to broaden the job opportunities. That means going beyond the jobs we often hear about in schools. It is really about openin

Status of Women committee  Actually, most of the time, they don't even know that those job sectors exist. We have brought the list of occupations with us. I think that the list of non-traditional jobs is four pages long. They are usually quite specific jobs. Take Bombardier, for example, which can offer so

Status of Women committee  I am now going to deal with the matter of the devalued skills of immigrant women. For us, the situation of immigrant women specifically is important to discuss. These women represent a growing population; however, they are underrepresented in the labour market and their rate of