Evaluation of Equality Policies for the Status of Women in Canada

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 241 - 277
• Main Author: Michalos, Alex C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.03.2000; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Canada; Child care; Children; Criminal law; Criminals; Employment; Equal opportunities; Equality; Evaluation; Females; Feminism; Gender Discrimination; Gender equality; Gender equity; Gender Issues; Jurisdiction; Marital Status; Men; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Sexual Inequality; Social Indicators; Social Policy; Social research; Sociology; Sociology of the family. Age groups; Statistical Data; Violence against women; Woman social status. Women's emancipation; Women; Womens health; Womens rights; Womens rights movements; Working women; Workloads; Canada; Sex equality; Salary; Woman work; Rape; Poverty; Illegitimate Child; Income; Victimization; Professional training; Occupational status; Divorce; Education; Social Perception; Crime; Child care service; Social Policy; Marriage; Social impact
• ISSN: 0303-8300; 1573-0921
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1006938026704

The aim of this paper is to review and evaluate policies designed to create gender equality in Canada over roughly the past 30 years with a view to determining what impact, if any, they have had on the status of women. After considering 29 indicators, and noting some of their advantages and disadvantages, it is concluded that all things considered, there is more evidence of improvement than of deterioration in the status of women, including more evidence of progress toward gender equality, since the 1970 "Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada".