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The impact of the climate crisis on women

  • Efforts to reduce gendered fallout of climate change need to happen alongside investments in cleaner fuels, greener transportation, and carbon removal systems.
Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | September 14, 2023
Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien, left, and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault. Emergency-driven food and housing insecurities prove most difficult for women with young and elderly dependents and lower incomes, writes Paulette Senior. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

The impact of the climate crisis on women

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | September 14, 2023
  • Efforts to reduce gendered fallout of climate change need to happen alongside investments in cleaner fuels, greener transportation, and carbon removal systems.

The impact of the climate crisis on women

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | September 14, 2023
  • Efforts to reduce gendered fallout of climate change need to happen alongside investments in cleaner fuels, greener transportation, and carbon removal systems.
Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth Marci Ien, left, and Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault. Emergency-driven food and housing insecurities prove most difficult for women with young and elderly dependents and lower incomes, writes Paulette Senior. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

MPs’ work on gun control misses target

  • Notwithstanding the proven link between guns and violence against women, Canadian women’s groups have not been treated as serious stakeholders in the gun control
Opinion | BY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, ERIN WHITMORE, PAULETTE SENIOR | March 23, 2023
Marco Mendicino
Marco Mendicino
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino is sponsor of Bill C-21, the federal government’s proposed new firearms law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

MPs’ work on gun control misses target

Opinion | BY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, ERIN WHITMORE, PAULETTE SENIOR | March 23, 2023
  • Notwithstanding the proven link between guns and violence against women, Canadian women’s groups have not been treated as serious stakeholders in the gun control

MPs’ work on gun control misses target

Opinion | BY SUZANNE ZACCOUR, ERIN WHITMORE, PAULETTE SENIOR | March 23, 2023
  • Notwithstanding the proven link between guns and violence against women, Canadian women’s groups have not been treated as serious stakeholders in the gun control
Marco Mendicino
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino is sponsor of Bill C-21, the federal government’s proposed new firearms law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

We need to talk about a dangerous gap

  • There’s a dangerous gap we need to talk about. The Canadian Women’s Foundation found that two-thirds of people in Canada know a woman who
Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | March 16, 2022
After years of feminist advocacy, Canada is finally investing in national action planning to address gendered abuse. Too many lives have been needlessly, tragically lost and the human and economic toll has been staggering. It has costed us billions of tax dollars: $7.4-billion annually to deal with the aftermath of spousal violence in Canada alone, as measured in 2009, writes Paulette Senior. Image courtesy of Pixabay

We need to talk about a dangerous gap

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | March 16, 2022
  • There’s a dangerous gap we need to talk about. The Canadian Women’s Foundation found that two-thirds of people in Canada know a woman who

We need to talk about a dangerous gap

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | March 16, 2022
  • There’s a dangerous gap we need to talk about. The Canadian Women’s Foundation found that two-thirds of people in Canada know a woman who
After years of feminist advocacy, Canada is finally investing in national action planning to address gendered abuse. Too many lives have been needlessly, tragically lost and the human and economic toll has been staggering. It has costed us billions of tax dollars: $7.4-billion annually to deal with the aftermath of spousal violence in Canada alone, as measured in 2009, writes Paulette Senior. Image courtesy of Pixabay

The state of gender justice

  • 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
Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | December 16, 2021
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

The state of gender justice

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

The state of gender justice

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
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

In 2021, motherhood is breaking us

  • Being a mother in Canada this year is bringing many of us to the point of breaking. New data from the Canadian Women’s Foundation reveals
Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | May 12, 2021
The burdens of gendered care work have long been an obstacle in achieving gender justice. Women carry the bulk of housework and child and elder care responsibilities and are less likely to be supported in the process, writes Paulette Senior. Pexels photograph by William Fortunato

In 2021, motherhood is breaking us

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | May 12, 2021
  • Being a mother in Canada this year is bringing many of us to the point of breaking. New data from the Canadian Women’s Foundation reveals

In 2021, motherhood is breaking us

Opinion | BY PAULETTE SENIOR | May 12, 2021
  • Being a mother in Canada this year is bringing many of us to the point of breaking. New data from the Canadian Women’s Foundation reveals
The burdens of gendered care work have long been an obstacle in achieving gender justice. Women carry the bulk of housework and child and elder care responsibilities and are less likely to be supported in the process, writes Paulette Senior. Pexels photograph by William Fortunato
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