Status of Women committee  Our collective work, Travail invisible, has a very interesting chapter by Sonia Ben Soltane, a professor at the University of Ottawa. She talks about the journey of immigrant women. Those who come here are mostly from North Africa and Haiti. For them, it's an opportunity to impro

Status of Women committee  It's important, because it puts the matter out in the spotlight, but these forms of recognition remain quite symbolic. We absolutely need to have forms of financial recognition in addition to that and we must improve funding for public services to really give women and families a

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I missed the last part of what you said. Could you quickly repeat the question, please?

Status of Women committee  What I have observed, basically, is that the unequal division of labour in the family has a lot to do with wage inequality. For example, when families are deciding to take parental leave or send children to daycare, they are often guided by financial issues. Those issues are them

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I’m less familiar with provincial accountability, so I won’t comment on that. However, I think your point about access to services, particularly in rural settings, is fundamental. There are serious problems with access to child care in many remote re

Status of Women committee  As Dr. Bezanson pointed out, paternity leave is fundamental to promoting men's involvement in the family. Many studies have shown that the earlier men get involved in their children's lives, the greater their involvement in family life later on.

Status of Women committee  I think it goes back to the issue of choice and accessibility. Of course, families have to have a choice. I was with a group yesterday, and we discussed children with disabilities. The benefits given to families to care for these children are much lower than the amounts allocate

Status of Women committee  In Quebec, many racialized women, especially Black women, many of whom were refugees, worked in private residences for seniors. I believe that improving employment conditions in these sectors is fundamental. Currently, it's mainly racialized women, who sometimes have precarious

Status of Women committee  These issues were discussed extensively in the 1970s and 1980s. All of these debates were somewhat put aside, but the idea of a wage for housework was also of interest to researcher Louise Toupin, who wrote a book in French that has been translated into English, on the demand fo

Status of Women committee  I think this manifests itself in several different ways. For example, I am getting ready to go back to work, but there's no room at the early childhood centre. The Quebec child care system is highly idealized, but in reality there is very little room. You may never even get one,

Status of Women committee  I'll answer the first question to start. Access to child care is fundamental to employment and child care responsibilities. On the employer side, there is the whole issue of flexibility. It seems to me that over the last few decades this flexibility has been done in a one-way f

Status of Women committee  I would like to thank the members of the committee for having me here today. My name is Camille Robert. I'm a doctoral student and history lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal. I've done research on the history of feminist mobilization for the recognition of housework

Status of Women committee  Is the interpretation working? Good.

Status of Women committee  I've done research on the history of feminist mobilization for the recognition of housework in Quebec. I also co-authored, with researcher Louise Toupin, a collective work on the invisible work of women today. We've worked with activists and intellectuals from a variety of backg