Recovery through Equality: Developing an Inclusive Action Plan for Women in the Economy - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canadian Women’s Foundation

Least likely to have the financial means to withstand this crisis, they are experiencing the slowest return to work, greatest caregiving challenges and most severe secondary impacts, including increased levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and unmet health needs.15 2 The Action Plan for Women in the Economy must address immediate needs and lay the foundation for a safer, more resilient, and gende. [...] Development of an Action Plan for Women and the Economy provides the opportunity to pursue solutions to this current crisis, and to invest in the foundations of a feminist recovery that reverses long-standing inequalities in Canada. [...] As the recent Fall Economic Statement noted, this is an opening to advance “gender equality and equity more broadly over the medium and longer-term.”16 Business-as-usual will not deliver decent and dignified work, income security, quality public services, or protection of the natural environment – all of which are needed to redress gender and other injustices and to create an inclusive and sustain. [...] Over the long term, a successful strategy for women in the economy has to create the enabling conditions for diverse women to engage in paid employment, address women’s structural disadvantages and foster the creation of decent work that delivers a fair income and enjoys employment and social protections. [...] So is modernizing old systems, such as Employment Insurance, to reflect current and future labour realities, and building out the role and generosity of programs that offset the costs of essential goods such as housing, medication, and attendant care and work to reduce poverty and income disparities.