Status of Women committee  I think what we should be mindful of is that, in our current culture, respecting women has been so rare in our history that once a man says, "I'm a feminist" or "I respect gender equality", we kind of put him on a pedestal. I think that's been happening nationally and internation

Status of Women committee  I agree with Daniela. I think we need to have external and non-partisan support systems for women considering running for office and also for women at different levels of engagement who are involved with our democratic processes. That can include the realm of policy creation and

Status of Women committee  As I said in my last point, I think that what we could do here in Ottawa, even for just the House of Commons employees and the folks who interact with this institution, is to create an external support mechanism, so that all the reports, all the support systems and all the polici

Status of Women committee  That has to do with the culture.

Status of Women committee  No one will go near the policy until they feel they're supported by their community, their bosses, their party staff or their colleagues. Until our culture catches up to where the policy expects us to be, we're not going to see any change. The work we do with our training and mak

Status of Women committee  Just one more point.

Status of Women committee  In terms of immediate supports, we believe that creating a sexual violence and education role within the administrative team of the institution to centralize the policies, the report mechanisms and the supports for survivors will make a huge difference in terms of encouraging fol

Status of Women committee  Hello, everyone. Thank you for inviting me to speak with you about the work of the Young Women's Leadership Network on sexual violence against women in politics. The Young Women's Leadership Network is a non-profit organization that works with young women to make sure that they