Status of Women committee  I think that, unfortunately, sometimes we still think of a breadwinner model, when in fact what we've seen is that most rich economies have moved towards a two-earner model. The question then is, how does one facilitate that, in terms of all of those other needs that need to be t

Status of Women committee  It's an interesting example. I don't know how many people that would speak to—the $70,000—because in terms of average family income, that's pretty high. My sense of the research is that with more and more women getting educated or engaging in training programs, they want to move

Status of Women committee  I don't really, no. I think that it would be better not to use the tax system in that way.

Status of Women committee  I agree with the other two witnesses, and I would just add that I think, from the perspective of my own university, there are two things that are interesting in terms of the Canada research chairs, CRCs. We have very few, and that's because the funding model is based on the resea

Status of Women committee  I see the difficulty in some areas in terms of data, but I think there are always ways in which to maybe get around that a bit by doing approximations. For example, if one has a sense of the number of women versus men employed in a sector, one can do some approximations that way.

Status of Women committee  Well, I'm sure, as many other witnesses have testified, that's key, and it really underscores all different groups of women having an equal footing with men in the labour market. I think it's very key to bring in some kind of affordable day care. We have a situation in Toronto wh

Status of Women committee  That's an important question. Yes, I believe that was Professor Lahey who you heard from on that. I think, in terms of the stock option, from the preliminary research my colleague and I are doing using the StatsCan raw data, we found that men were 6.5 times more likely to take u

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I think Janet already alluded to some dimensions of that. I think what I was trying to suggest in my comments was that we need to rethink, adopt a different way of framing our fiscal and monetary policies to bring in the understanding that there are structure biases

Status of Women committee  I don't have a specific suggestion regarding that. I think it's something that's important to look into. As I tried to make clear in my remarks, if the government is reviewing tax policy as it is, I think it's important to look at both dimensions—the distributional implications o

Status of Women committee  Thank you, and good morning. I would like to focus my remarks this morning on how we might rethink the current macroeconomic policy framework to facilitate the greater economic security of all women in Canada. Macroeconomic policies are important because they impact how the who