Stop the presses! Canadian women do more housework
EXCERPTSOn Thursday, Statistics Canada issued one of its like-clockwork reminders that women perform far more housework and child care than their male partners. “Changes in parents’ participation in...
View ArticleThe economic realities of early childhood education in the United States and...
AbstractOften overlooked in discussions related to how to ensure accessible and affordable high-quality early childhood education is the heavy burden that has been carried by the early childhood...
View ArticleDoes childcare and the life-balance myth contribute to the equal pay gap?
EXCERPTSI recently learned how blessed I am to have a flexible business model that allows me to impact leaders around the world while maintaining my presence as an active mother. My husband and I...
View ArticleLocal mom creates podcast to highlight child care crisis
EXCERPTSA Sunshine Coast woman is hoping a chance to hear the voices of mothers struggling to find adequate child care will bring more attention to solving the problem.Rachel Horst of Halfmoon Bay, a...
View ArticleCoalition of women's groups to argue for pay equity at the Supreme Court of...
EXCERPTS On June 22, 2017 the Supreme Court of Canada granted the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition, the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity and the Women's Leaf Education and Action Fund (LEAF) status...
View ArticleAfter 30 years... How is child care in Canada doing and where to next?
DescriptionThe Canadian Child Care Federation's summer edition of Interaction features five lively and timely discussions between leaders in the ECEC sector as well as a retrospective piece from...
View ArticleIntroducing use-it-or-lose-it leave for fathers would make life fairer for...
EXCERPTSIt is still the prevailing view in Australia that child care is a woman's responsibility. We have the baby, take maternity leave, and if we go back to work it is usually part time. When a man...
View ArticleWomen are right to be angry at the pay gap
EXCERPTSThis week, the BBC has been thrust into the awkward position of reporting on itself. The story is hardly flattering to the public service broadcaster. Payroll details, which the BBC was forced...
View ArticleWomen in shelters often missing out on federal child benefits: ombudsman
EXCERPTS OTTAWA - Canada's taxpayers' advocate says the Canada Revenue Agency isn't doing a good enough job ensuring women living in shelters with their children are aware of and receiving benefit...
View ArticleScottish Government under pressure to abolish business rates for struggling...
EXCERPTSBusiness rates should be removed for nurseries in Scotland to support childcare provision, according to a Government think-tank.The Barclay Review on Business Rates have responded to a...
View ArticleToronto child poverty divided along racial lines
Child poverty rate in Toronto is twice as high in racialized families according to a new study based on the 2016 census. EXCERPTSToronto remains the child poverty capital of Canada with more than one...
View ArticleHow mothers get caught in an unemployment–child care cycle
EXCERPTSIn New York, an unemployed mother left her two children in the car, air conditioning on, while she went in LaGuardia Airport for a job interview. The children were fine but told the cop who...
View ArticleEducation, labour and journey to work: Key results from the 2016 census
Statistics Canada is pleased to release its final major instalment of data on education, labour, journey to work, language of work, mobility and migration.
View ArticleSyrian family grateful for new life in Winnipeg despite struggles
EXCERPTSFadel Ahmad has faced many struggles since his family came to Winnipeg as government-sponsored refugees almost two years ago, but the father of four refuses to complain.Speaking in Kurdish,...
View ArticleRate of mothers entering workforce plateaued in Alberta as it rose in Quebec,...
Expensive daycare and higher single incomes in Alberta possibly keeping women at home, U of C researchers say EXCERPTSWorkforce participation by women with young children is rising in Quebec and...
View ArticleB.C. not meeting women's rights targets established by UN, says legal...
EXCERPTSA legal advocacy group says British Columbia is falling short of meeting targets set by the United Nations on women's rights.The report card released by West Coast LEAF (Women's Legal...
View ArticleNo more nappy valley but childcare still an issue for working women
Childcare worries hold more women than men back from workforce participation. The only remedy is a change in culture EXCERPTSNew data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal that childcare...
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