Pay Equity committee  As I stated in my presentation, the wage gap is firmly in the minister's mandate letter and she has already started working with her colleagues on this issue in a variety of different ways and will continue to do so.

Pay Equity committee  If I could just add one thing from Status of Women. When FEWO studied this in the past, the recommendation was for the Departments of Justice and Labour to continue to lead the work on it and I believe that was back in 2004. There is definitely a role for the Department of Justic

Pay Equity committee  No, I think I had better pass.

Pay Equity committee  Yes, I would add to that and, again, it's really important to differentiate between pay equity and wage gaps. I'm not sure if your question was just about pay equity.

Pay Equity committee  Yes, as my colleague pointed out, Finland would certainly be a good place to start on wage gaps. Again, the Nordic countries have all sorts of different responses to wage gaps, including ways of helping women work more flexible hours, better child care regimes than perhaps we hav

Pay Equity committee  I don't know if there are discussions going on about pay equity in particular as part of CSR, corporate social responsibility. There's a lot of work going on with the private sector, with corporations, and with the non-profit sector to focus on equality issues in general, whether

Pay Equity committee  Our role is more of a challenge function, as I say in the last slide, so we wouldn't actually have a concrete role in developing or implementing any apparent legislation.

Pay Equity committee  As we mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, there are different ways of measuring this. But some of what is affecting the wage gap—and whether or not it's within the definition of pay equity, I'm not sure—has to do with hidden ways of compensating men. If you look at m

Pay Equity committee  That's a complicated question with a complicated answer.

Pay Equity committee  If I understand the question properly.... Is it why indigenous women earn significantly less than indigenous men or non-indigenous men, or both?

Pay Equity committee  It would be related to all of the factors that I stated within the presentation, so part-time work, labour market segmentation, inability to work at all because of lack of supports and education, but also all of the other social issues that affect indigenous communities. The list

Pay Equity committee  I believe Status of Women will start and then Treasury Board and then labour.

Pay Equity committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, committee members. We just want to give you a very high-level overview of the wage gap, which is significantly different from pay equity, but it gives you a sense of the broader context. On slide 2 we give some definitions of what the gender wage gap

Status of Women committee  I believe this committee has studied best practices to address violence against women fairly recently, so that would be something of interest to take a look at.

Status of Women committee  Chair, if I could jump in, this is one of the situations in which Status of Women is an enabler, an organization that works with other federal organizations to ensure there's a gender lens in the programs and policies that are being developed. It's related to the wage gap strateg