Resource Database on Women's Economic Security

Aboriginal Families
Budgets and Women
Employment and Training
Income Inequality
Income Supports
Pay Equity
Racialized Women
Senior Women
Supporting Families with Children
Violence Against Women (VAW)
Women’s Centred Community Economic Development
Women and Housing

Aboriginal Families

• First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: Time to Act - National Council of Welfare                                                                   


• National Strategy to Prevent Abuse in Inuit Communities and Sharing Knowledge, Sharing Wisdom: A Guide to the National Strategy - Pauktuutit


• Aboriginal Children Living Off-Reserve Ages 0 – 6 Years - Native Women's Association of Canada


• Strategies to Address Child Welfare - Native Women's Association of Canada

Budgets and Women

• Gender Budget Project - UNPAC

Employment and Training

• Rural Women - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Women in the Canadian Labour Market - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Self-Employed Women - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Childcare - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Women and Contingent Work - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Immigrant Women - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Employment Insurance - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Access Diminished: A Report on Women’s Training And Employment Services in Ontario - A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women


• Creating Employment Opportunities for Immigrant Women Project - NOIVMW

Income Inequality

• The Rich and the Rest of Us: The changing face of Canada’s growing gap - Armine Yalnizyan, CCPA


• Update: Vibrant Communities Calgary’s Living Wage Campaign - Anne Makhoul, Caledon Institute


• Growing Gap Campaign - Growing Gap Campaign


• Women and the Economy Project - UNPAC


• Improving the Economic Security of Women: Time to Act - House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women


• Brief on Equality: Aboriginal Women’s Perspectives - Quebec Native Women


• Women’s Income and Poverty in Canada Revisited - Canadian Association of Social Workers

Income Supports

• Women and the Employment Insurance Program / Les femmes et le programme d'assurance-emploi - Monica Townson & Kevin Hayes, CCPA


• A Poverty Reduction Strategy for Ontario - Campaign 2000


• National Anti-Poverty Strategy - National Council of Welfare


• Welfare Incomes - National Council of Welfare


• Poverty Profile - National Council of Welfare


• Welfare Rights Are Women’s Rights, Consultation Report - National Association of Women and the Law


• Yes, Virginia, There is a Guaranteed Annual Income - Caledon Institute

 Pay Equity

• Pay Equity: A New Approach to a Fundamental Right - Task Force on Pay Equity


• Equal Pay Coalition - Ontario, Canada

Racialized Women

Senior Women

• Women Elders in Action - Vancouver, British Columbia


• Seniors on the Margins - National Advisory Council on Aging


• Pensions in Canada: policy reform because women matter - Women Elders in Action

Supporting Families with Children

• A Bigger and Better Child Benefit: A $5,000 Canada Child Tax Benefit - Ken Battle, Caledon Institute


• Making the Connections: Using Public Reporting to Track the Progress on Child Care Services in Canada - The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada


• Building a Community Architecture for Early Learning Childhood and Care - YWCA


• Improving Maternity and Parental Benefits for Women outside of Québec: Proposals for Law Reform - NAWL


• Thinking About How to Finance New Parental Benefits - NAWL

Violence Against Women (VAW)

• Effective Practices in Sheltering Women Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships - YWCA


• Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada - Amnesty International Canada


• Indigenous Women and violence - Quebec Native Women’s Association


• Stop Violence Against Women Campaign - Amnesty International Canada


• The White Ribbon Campaign - Men working to end men's violence against women


• Violence Against Aboriginal Women and Girls - Native Women’s Association of Canada


• Step it Up! Campaign - End Violence Against Women

Women's Centered Community Economic Development

Women and Housing

• Women and Housing in Canada: Barriers to Equality - CERA


• The Little Voices of Nunavut: A Study of Women’s Homelessness North of 60 - YWCA


• Voices: Women, Poverty and Homelessness in Canada - National Anti-Poverty Organizayion


• A Little Kindness Would Go A Long Way: A Study of Women’s Homelessness in the Yukon - YWCA


• Aboriginal Women and Housing - Native Women’s Association of Canada


• Risk of death among homeless women: a cohort study and review of the literature - Angela M. Cheung and Stephen W. Hwang