The state of gender justice

We need gender justice pursued at a level, pace, and sophistication Canada has not yet known.

Minister for Women and Gender Equality Marci Ien, pictured Nov. 8, 2021, arriving for the Liberals' caucus meeting in the West Block in Ottawa. 'We need gender justice to be positioned as a central goal in government, and it can’t just be a matter of remedial responses. We need a sea change,' writes Paulette Senior. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PAULETTE SENIOR

December 16, 2021

At the end of 2021, it’s clearer than ever that 30 years of progress on gender equality is at risk. There are three areas that give us a sense of the scope of the challenge we face today: economic opportunity, safety, and discrimination. Almost half a million women in Canada lost their jobs by J...

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