Also, I've come under fire for posting in defence of Status of Women Canada, without really saying why they are important. That's a fair criticism, so I'm going to post some info about why women in Canada need a ministry to advocate for them, with excerpts from this document, published by Status of Women last year: Equality for Women in Canada: Beyond The Illusion.
Here we go:
Girls are more likely to be victims of sexual assault perpetrated by a family member than boys.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Family Violence in Canada: A Statistical Profile, 2005
Women's representation in corporate leadership in Canada is extremely low.
SOURCE: Catalyst, Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners of Canada, 2004
NOTE: Findings based on companies ranked in the National Post's Financial Post 500 List (FP500)
Women are still heavily under-represented in positions of power within federal, provincial and territorial governments.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Women and Men in Canada, 2003
Women are under-represented in mathematical/physical sciences and engineering enrolment.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 2001
In the last 30 years, women have made strides in self-employment.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 1971-2001
Women entrepreneurs are over-represented in personal and social service industries.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 2001
The vast majority of unpaid work is still done by women.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 2001The most recent figures show that 38 percent of Aboriginal women live in low-income situations. So, too, do 35 percent of lone mothers and 27 percent of immigrant women. Immigrant women working full time earn 58 cents for every dollar earned by Canadian-born men. There is a much higher risk of poverty for women heading lone-parent families, immigrant women, senior women living alone and women with disabilities. Aboriginal women face higher rates of poverty, unemployment and poor housing than other Canadians.
Women who are immigrants, disabled, a member of a visible minority or Aboriginal are more likely to live in poverty than men.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 2001
NOTE: Based on Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs). LICOs estimate the income level at which a family is in difficult financial circumstances because it has to spend a greater portion of its income on the basics (food, clothing and shelter) than does the average family of similar size. The LICOs vary by family size and by size of community.
Women's income is gradually increasing but the gap between women and men remains the same.
SOURCE: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2002 and Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 2002.
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Just because the real world is divisive doesn't mean YOU have to be!
I was going to say that human are underrepresented in, you know, ZOOS. But then I remembered this.
I guess it's WHITE PEOPLE who can't can't get a gig as a zoo animal. How RACIST.
Some people certainly do say that there no equality issues that need to be addressed, and they say it loudly and with great frequency.
How would YOU address them, if not with an organization that exists in order to address them? That seems like a pretty straightforward response to me.
REAL Women can't replace Status of Women Canada. One is an organization. The other is a governmental agency.
"If they were, they wouldn't have gone bankrupt, they wouldn't be demanding more money."
Who the hell wrote this, Margaret Thatcher?
When exactly did revenue generation become the acid test for whether or not a given government program is a good idea?
So, are schools, hospitals, and every other bloody government service to be held to that same standard now?
As to the assertion "Women are saying that SOW isn't the way.", the only women saying that are either think-tank lobbyists who are paid for by corporate interests, or people who think that the SoW is a communist plot.
I mean, it makes complete sense that the First Woman Prime Minister of Britain would be attacked by someone supporting the advancement of women's rights. Right?
I guess Margaret Thatcher doesn't count because she was a conservative.
Unbelievable. You just completely ignored everything she did for the advancement of women's rights everywhere.
Why do boneheaded idiots like yourself feel so entitled to spew this foolishness around while claiming to speak on behalf of “mainstream” women?
I suspect your experience with women is limited.
I seriously seriously wish the groups didn't both have "status of women" in their name, because it makes them seem like one is far more connected to the other than it is.
It's a little older than I'd thought though: 2002.
I'll send the charts tonight. For whatever reason, noone thought they were worth publishing.
That, and the fact I tend to waste my time looking at things like kittens playing guitars...
http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/
JEB
Everyone has some. Even girls. They just have less, usually.
If you ever question whether people have economic power, consider the Montgomery, Alabama public bus system.
In the chart, "Degree Attainment For Women & Men (2001)", it shows that the only degree that women obtain more than men is education. Now out of the 6 degrees listed, I would assume that an educational degree would pay the least. So if men are graduating with "higher paying degrees", then doesn't it make sense that men would be making significantly more money than women?
I'm quite sure that university acceptance is not gender biased but if it is, please correct me. As a quick example, all of the university level business courses I took were more than 3/4 male students.
So... did I answer your question, or did I miss the point?
Which I'm sure is not the case at all-women's colleges...
Sorry, that was a little flip. My point, though, is that simply because the business level courses you took were more than 3/4 male students, this does not mean that the statistic is the same world-wide.
Moreover, one could consider the very societal value scale that says that one kind of degree "pays more" than the other, as it is jobs that are traditionally "women's work" that have lower salaries than "mens' work," and the very notion that one kind of work is less fiscally important than the other is, if you think about it, odd. Especially if you question why that importance seems to be based on gender lines.
Audra, you are not quailified to understand statistics.
You are exactly the kind of person the media loves. You hear the barest minimum and leap to the conclusions they want you too because you don't actually think very hard. You are comparing things that can't be compared. You are leaving parts of the equation out.
You just like being angry all the time. You seek it. You wouldn't know how to live your life if you weren't. You are happy ignoring the real issues because you are not really interested in change, only appearing that you are. That's what they want. To distract you from what's really going on in the world.
If you're suggesting that Canadian Universities are short on female students, I have to question why my university is shutting down its only remaining all-male dorm in order to make it co-ed (there are currently three all-female dorms on campus already).