Category: Women & Work

Conflict of G7 Gender Equity Interest? (broken link)

Posted by on in International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

June 2018: Conflict of G7 Gender Equity Interest? Why is motherhood unmentionable? Canada's G7 Gender Equity Council wants more money for daycare. Maya Roy, CEO of Canada's YWCA is on the Council. The Y is the biggest provider of daycare…

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Media Release: International Women’s Day complaint to federal government: end discrimination against mothers caring for their kids

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

MEDIA RELEASE Burnaby, BC - March 8, 2018 - Kids First Parent Association of Canada is marking International Women's Day by submitting a formal complaint to the federal government regarding discrimination. A letter submitted today outlines discrimination against both mothers…

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March 8, 2018 – International Women's Day

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Our government thinks maternal child care is bad for women and children and the economy. Our leaders want to "GET MOTHERS BACK TO WORK" and get our children into full time LICENSED DAYCARE so we can be "PRODUCTIVE" in the…

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Mothers' & fathers' paid work grossly over-stated by daycare proponents

Posted by on in Misc., Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Mothers' & fathers' paid work grossly over-stated by daycare proponents: About 1/2 of mothers and 2/3 of fathers do paid work on an average day June 1, 2017. Patricia Houle, Martin Turcotte, and Michael Wendt. Statistics Canada - report: "Changes…

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Exploiting women through childcare

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Aug 10, 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?

Sarah Godoy's response to "Child care money is just more Tory sexism"

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Dear Sir/Madam, Daycare is expensive, and families who use it and who are struggling to make ends meet certainly deserve support, but parental childcare is equally expensive, and families who provide parental childcare deserve support equally. In my family we…

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Full Equality For Women (broken link)

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

FULL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: Funding for family care work embraced by economists and lawyers "every mother is a working mother" Sept 2014 "Setting a wage for homemaking" - Mercatornet (broken link)September 2014 "Taking Unpaid Housework for Granted Is Wrong" -…

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Appeal court upholds ruling: Employers must accommodate parents child care obligations

Posted by on in Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Misc., Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Appeal court upholds ruling: Employers must accommodate parents child care obligations Kids First is working towards a human rights complaint about the definitions of "child care" and "work" that say that child care is not done by parents and is…

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Calgary Herald article

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Policy with promise

Via IMFC February 20, 2014. IMFC - update (web): Calgary Herald: Andrea Mrozek quoted in editorial favouring income splitting See original article here: Calgary Herald article (broken link) See Also 1999 Federal Sub-Committee report (download PDF here) on income splitting

Birth-Mothers are Different Than Other Parents (broken link)

Posted by on in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Pregnancy

Supreme Court of Canada rules birth-mothers are different than other parents. West Coast LEAF lawyer publicly congratulates and supports Kids First goal of challenging definitions of "child care" and "work" that discriminate against the work of parental child care. Hear…

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SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE (broken link)

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE: Quebec daycare economists promote the Quebec daycare system because it increases labour supply and thus lowers wages which increases business profits. They also endorse neo-liberal/neo-conservative "trickle down theory" asserting that "eventually" this…

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