Women In Canada – A Grim Picture Or Just Another Biased Report?

By mom4dads: Here in Canada we often hear about the many, many indigenous women and girls who went missing and/or were murdered. Today an internal report was released and apparently it paints a grim picture for all women in Canada. What is very hard to find, in my experience, is information about male on male crimes and women on males crimes. And since statistics like the “1 in 5” one have been proven wrong, I really have no idea if the report about women in Canada is true.
From CBCNews – Monday September 7, 2015
Canada is falling behind the developed world in women’s equality, as poverty rates climb for elderly single women and for single-parent families headed by women, says an internal report by Status of Women Canada.
According to the report, this country is in the bottom ranks in terms of the pay gap between men and women; support for child care and parental leave is well below average; the country registers 57th for gender equality in Parliament’s elected members; and it lacks a national strategy to halt violence against women.
When it comes to the salary gap between the sexes, women have hit a brick wall,” says the report.
And “while rates of male-on-male violence in Canada have diminished over time, rates of violence against women have not, and reporting has not increased.” Rural, immigrant and indigenous women are cited as particularly vulnerable.

“As in all societies, we can always find areas for improvement such as addressing violence against women,” said Roux. “All levels of government have a responsibility for, and are working on, addressing women’s labour market participation, including salary gaps where they exist, and addressing violence against women.”

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