Canada’s next government needs to plan for and drive a gender-just recovery

In December 2019, the World Economic Forum predicted that it would take 257 years to close the economic gender gap. Today, it would take 267.6 years. We are going in the wrong direction.

A CARE trainer for the Empowering Women Workers in Bangladesh speaks in July 2019. Entrepreneurship can offer a clear path out of poverty, and when given better access to finance and capital, women are strong savers and borrowers, writes Barbara Grantham. Photograph courtesy of CARE Canada

Opinion

BY BARBARA GRANTHAM

September 21, 2021

After the 2021 federal election, without a doubt, pandemic recovery will keep the incoming resident of 24 Sussex Drive awake at night. But will Canada's leader recognize that the pandemic recovery will depend on women continuing to lead in communities everywhere around...

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