Gender Equality in Canada
Gender equality remains a topic of conversation in Canada.
This past year she has seen some progress with the #MeToo movement and more women talking about gender inequality.
Paulette Senior, president and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation, told the Alberta Morning News that Canada has made some progress, but there is much more work to be done. "We have been moving slowly towards equal pay for work of equal value, but we are not seeing the gap really shorten," said Senior. "But we are moving forward little by little, I think women are certainly impatient in terms of the continuing and persistent gap."
Listen below: President and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation Paulette Senior on gender equality in Canada But do those who fight for gender equality want too many things at once, instead of focusing on one thing at a time? It depends on who you ask.
For organizations like the Canadian Women's Foundation that have been fighting this battle for years, Senior said, progress is not being made fast enough. "They think we've been doing this job for so long, we certainly had to fight for the vote in Canada so many years ago, we certainly had to fight for almost everything we've had."
While the #MeToo movement has had a great momentum lately, he said, things like pay equity continue to progress slowly. Part of the problem, said Senior, is systemic. "We have all been raised in a society where this is what we have been seeing, this is what we are used to, not only to men in terms of how they see the world, but also to women and for that reason [we are] Waking up to the reality of what things are. "
Gender equality remains a topic of conversation in Canada.
This past year she has seen some progress with the #MeToo movement and more women talking about gender inequality.
Paulette Senior, president and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation, told the Alberta Morning News that Canada has made some progress, but there is much more work to be done. "We have been moving slowly towards equal pay for work of equal value, but we are not seeing the gap really shorten," said Senior. "But we are moving forward little by little, I think women are certainly impatient in terms of the continuing and persistent gap."
Listen below: President and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation Paulette Senior on gender equality in Canada But do those who fight for gender equality want too many things at once, instead of focusing on one thing at a time? It depends on who you ask.
For organizations like the Canadian Women's Foundation that have been fighting this battle for years, Senior said, progress is not being made fast enough. "They think we've been doing this job for so long, we certainly had to fight for the vote in Canada so many years ago, we certainly had to fight for almost everything we've had."
While the #MeToo movement has had a great momentum lately, he said, things like pay equity continue to progress slowly. Part of the problem, said Senior, is systemic. "We have all been raised in a society where this is what we have been seeing, this is what we are used to, not only to men in terms of how they see the world, but also to women and for that reason [we are] Waking up to the reality of what things are. "