Did you know that no country in the world has achieved wage equality between men and women? This historic inequality has been recognized by all major Western democracies. In Canada, the wage gap between men and women is 28%. In other countries, it is as high as 50%. Justifications for this...
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Did you know that no country in the world has achieved wage equality between men and women? This historic inequality has been recognized by all major Western democracies. In Canada, the wage gap between men and women is 28%. In other countries, it is as high as 50%. Justifications for this gender wage gap include workforce segregation between the sexes and endless hairsplitting on what constitutes the legal definition of equal pay for work of equal value. Feminists in Canada have rallied to the pay equity cause since 1970, but their efforts have been sidetracked or sideswiped by other political and legislative priorities. Since then, groundbreaking cases have demonstrated that the Canadian pay equity system is totally ineffective because the complaint mechanism is extremely costly and so lengthy that some women have even died waiting for justice. Now, in economic downturns like the present recession, governments (like the Tories under Stephen Harper) argue that they are broke and just do not have the extra money to afford pay equity. Thus women, socialized to be sacrificial lambs and lacking strong representation inside and outside the legislatures, end up being scapegoats. So, feminist efforts are stonewalled, yet again, and pay equity remains an elusive dream.

Let’s all hop on the pay equity (HOPE) bandwagon and support the Liberals in a push for a fairer and more inclusive policy of pay equity. Remember it was in December 2008 in the Tory budget that the fight for pay equity took another huge step backwards when the Harper government took public sector pay equity away from the Canadian Human Rights Commission and handed it over to the collective bargaining process. Now, even those in the public sector have no legal recourse over wage discrimination (unless they belong to a union).

Come on, Canadian women, we need to fight back like the baby boomers did in the 1970s! DON'T LET POLITICANS FORGET THAT PAY EQUITY IS AN IMPORTANT BREAD-AND-BUTTER ISSUE FOR ALL WOMEN VOTERS!
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HOPE -- Hop On Pay Equity -- Is a youth based organization that promotes and advocates for legislative change in employment and pay equity at both the federal and provincial level in Canada. Under the current Conservative government, pay equity has taken a huge step backwards and now only women...
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HOPE -- Hop On Pay Equity -- Is a youth based organization that promotes and advocates for legislative change in employment and pay equity at both the federal and provincial level in Canada. Under the current Conservative government, pay equity has taken a huge step backwards and now only women who are members of unions are eligible. It's time for change!
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This group welcomes the input of ideas and suggestions for political activism on the facebook group discussion page so that we can build a groundswell of support for changes to pay equity laws and women's rights in Canada. Hopefully we can achieve a ripple effect internationally and emulate the...
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This group welcomes the input of ideas and suggestions for political activism on the facebook group discussion page so that we can build a groundswell of support for changes to pay equity laws and women's rights in Canada. Hopefully we can achieve a ripple effect internationally and emulate the admirable examples of Sweden and Denmark
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