Unions: A Driver for Gender Equity

In and paid time off, and full-time work hours, the current report, we explore the findings with even after taking into account age, race, a focus on how union advantage is experienced immigration status and education level by women and men, and consider policy required for the job implications for promoting gender equity in the • Women and men in full-time union jobs do face of widespread precari [...] The first report, The Union Advantage, demonstrated broad advantages of The Ontario government has the opportunity to unionization in mitigating precarious employment make meaningful change in realizing the goal of and its adverse effects.2. [...] In the current report, we explore the role of unions in responding to precarious employment and its negative impacts for women and men, and consider policy implications for promoting gender equity in the face of widespread precarity. [...] These analyses allowed unionization and work-related and quality of life us to examine the extent and degree of union outcomes for groups of workers defined by age, advantage for women and men after taking into race and immigration status. [...] In contrast, the largely unionized public sector.25 Researchers women in the private sector have much lower have also pointed to the changing labour market as a source for the decline in men’s unionization rates of unionization compared to men in the rates, including decreased unionization in male- private sector.