Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Our study started because so many working white-collar professional South Asian women found they were not getting promoted or were being held back in certain positions, being asked to do all the work but not getting the title or salary related to it. That is one of

Status of Women committee  Some of the things we have been thinking about, but which we want to measure against fact, include recruitment efforts, accelerator programs within the companies themselves and outreach programs for students leaving university and high school, either directing students from high

Status of Women committee  Yes. You can proportionally distribute those funds based on the unemployment rate among women. That's one of the easiest ways to know we are actually reaching the women who have been most impacted. Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I will also mention that many female business owners have had to move online very quickly and move their whole model of operation to online shopping where it's relevant. This is particularly so for retail spaces or other types of.... It has meant scaling up to a different skill s

Status of Women committee  Oh, I'm so sorry.

Status of Women committee  What we're talking about here is a child care plan that is effective for working women. Right now, what we have are very competitive day cares. I'm going to tell you that personally, I am a working mom. I have a one-year-old, and my husband is working from home right now. I have

Status of Women committee  I think there should be either a type of subsidy or a type of virtual learning or a type of commitment here, but again, we are very reluctant to tell you, “Here is the x, y and z tangible result.” What we want to look at is whether these are women who are working in manufacturing

Status of Women committee  I think that's an excellent example of tangible action that we can then leverage in the community and promote within the community so that women actually know, with the strengthening of the equity act, that there is some sort of safety or action or a tangible step towards helping

Status of Women committee  I think it starts, as you've mentioned, with disaggregated data to look at what populations are being affected and where. Again, we started our study based on a ton of anecdotal information from women saying “I haven't been promoted” or “I've been laid off” or “I had to shut my b

Status of Women committee  Anecdotally, I'll give you examples. There are many people who have been taking on work that they typically wouldn't have, say in manufacturing or other fields, and are using grandparents, for instance, as day care and dropping off their kids there, or even having them within t

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think when we're looking at the unemployment rates overall, a blanket approach may not be supportive of what's happening. That, I think, is our message today. I think we need a little bit more information about what is happening. Is it discriminatory layoffs, for instanc

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Status of Women committee  I can take that question. What we're finding is that South Asian women are taking manufacturing jobs or other types of employment to get by, or we're finding people being laid off. I don't have the specific numbers. That's what we want to dig into.

Status of Women committee  Ruby, you can jump in as well, but I will take this again. It's exactly as you described. We're finding many self-employed business owners struggling, and again finding alternative work as well. We're also finding that people are taking on multiple jobs at this time, just becaus

Status of Women committee  I actually don't have a clear sightline into that. What we want to see through our study is whether the education rate shifts by age as well. Are they new immigrants or first generation among certain demographics? What we do know is that there are a lot of intergenerational hous