Speaking Truth To Power : A Reader on Canadian Women's Inequality

We miss the spotlight and the cheers of the crowd, and the feeling of power in our righteous anger. [...] In the spaces that we have carved out for ourselves, each of us must create a sense of hope for humanity… and wake up the sleeping masses… ‘No one is a passenger on this Earthship — we are all crew’.” speaKing trU th to power women forced to worK longer, 7 harder, for less pay Pat Armstrong As the royal commission on the Status of Women put it 40 years ago, the “position of women employees in the [...] In contrast to the focus of the Action Plan, the longer-term response is to cut resources to not-for-profit organizations and the public sector, where the impact will be, and it is felt primarily by women and over the long term. [...] Let’s be clear: there is no evidence that the public sector caused the crisis, but lots of talk about how it is in the public sector that the money will be found for the bailouts, tax cuts, and infrastructure spending that really caused the debt and deficits. [...] While 71% of the public sector is unionized, this is the case for only 16% of the private sector, and a smaller proportion of women than men in the private sector are unionized.