OTTAWA -- A new report says it would take Canada 164 years to close the economic gap between men and women if things keep going the way they are.
of how close -- or far -- Canada is from meeting United Nations gender equality goals it signed on to in 1995 shows "uneven" progress over the past five years despite a renewed focus on feminist policies from the Liberal government.
Ottawa submitted its own progress report to the UN this spring, where the Liberal government highlighted achievements such as gender-based budgeting and recent moves towards ensuring that men and women get equal pay for work of equal value.
The shadow report from more than 50 non-governmental organizations and released today says there is still a persistent gender gap when it comes to economic security in Canada, even though women now outnumber men when it comes to completing some form of post-secondary education.
That gap is even wider for women with disabilities or from First Nations, Metis, Inuit and immigrant communities.
Katherine Scott, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says the report shows there is still a lot of work to do.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 28, 2019.
