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Women-Centred
CED:
Community Economic Development (CED) is local development
that focuses on people, employment, self-employment, inclusion
and sustainability. Its local goal is to provide meaningful work
for all, at a level of income that provides a secure livelihood,
in jobs that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
Women-centred
CED adapts the framework to accomplish changes for women.
It starts with women’s lives and challenges deeper
and more systemic levels of economic and social equality
in a practical way ...
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Gender
Based Analysis:
The trend in Canadian public policy and program grant-making to take
a ‘gender-neutral’ approach
is disturbing. Policy and program decisions that appear gender neutral may have
differential impact on women and men, even when the effect was neither intended
nor envisioned,
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Women & Non-Standard
Employment:
The federal government identifies non-standard work as part-time, occasional,
seasonal and underemployment. Non-standard work is outside the legal and regulatory
employment standards, protections and benefits that were based on traditional
assumptions of full-time, paid work as an employee...
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Women & Poverty:
In Canada, poverty clearly intersects with gender, race and immigrant
status to produce a variety of significant impacts upon our social, economic,
political and cultural environment. Women are far more likely to live in
poverty than men
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Women
Entrepreneurs:
There are more than 821,000 women entrepreneurs in Canada contributing in excess
of $18 billion to the economy every year!
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