Status of Women committee  The Ontario government ran a campaign for “It's never okay”, for gender violence. It was really hard-hitting, I think, and very effective. They showed a scene happening that people, I'm sure, will have seen every day. We've normalized these kinds of things, and no one says anythi

Status of Women committee  Thank you. We'll do that.

Status of Women committee  In our consultation process we saw there was a huge lack of data and lack of continuity of data because of the census' being discontinued. When we were gathering our data we had to jump among different forms of data, which aren't always comparable. I applaud the census' being est

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I think that we as a society have to start thinking about the spending. Government spends a lot of money. They are a driving force in our economy. Without their considering the gender impact to that spending, we can find a lot of expansion of the gender wage gap by vi

Status of Women committee  Of late there seems to be a movement to youth. I'm seeing a lot of grant money available to young Canadians. I'm seeing youth being a part of every aspect that's happening. As my co-presenter here today has mentioned, let's not leave out women over 40 from the mix. It's almost li

Status of Women committee  I haven't dealt with that specifically. I've been focusing on the gender wage gap, which is really more about women during their employment years.

Status of Women committee  I would say that I think the government needs to set the tone and show the way. I think that having a balanced cabinet is a great example, but governments appoint many boards and to many positions. I think they need to balance those appointments as well at all levels of governmen

Status of Women committee  I'm glad you asked that, Karen. Thank you. I think a really key piece here is to make sure that the learning is experimental. There's a great way, I think, that school boards can do this through partnering with business. I think partnering is wonderful. It shares a bit of the co

Status of Women committee  From my standpoint, it would just be from the studies and things that we know. We don't have enough women in the pipeline. To get women involved takes programs and mentoring. There has to be an effort. It can't just happen. We can't just dream it and make it happen.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Good morning. In the interests of time and with all protocol observed, I'd like to thank the committee for the opportunity to address the topic of women's economic empowerment. I have been a member of the business and professional women's organization for more than