For future gender budgets, we need good data at the intersections
It has been a week since Budget 2017 was tabled, a budget that undertook, for the first time in Canada, a gender-based analysis.
Read moreNew report shines light on dynamics of gender pay gap
Every year, women around the world celebrate (angrily) the day their average full-time, full-year earnings have caught up to men’s average full-time full-year earnings from the year before.
Read moreA national child care system... because "it's 2015"
The best line of the Trudeau government’s first day— widely reported and praised in the international media—was the new PM’s.
Read moreThe fight for universal child care
My grandmother used to tell me that "nothing worth doing ever comes easy."
Well, a national, quality, affordable child care program is unquestionably worth doing. And come easy it won't.
Read moreThe economics (and ethics) of affordable child care
Many economists, particularly those that are male, find it difficult to understand the public interest in providing funding to child care.
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