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Women in Canada : Femmes au Canada : rapport statistique fondé sur le sexe

24 Jun 2011

This edition of Women in Canada was prepared by the Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division of Statistics Canada. [...] The first edition of Women in Canada was published in 1985, the same year as the United Nations Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi. [...] The report from the Conference noted that a ‘lack of reliable data prevents the assessment of relative improvements in women's status in the various sectors’, and urged ‘[f]urther investment in evolving adequate gender-specific data’.1 Women in Canada’s scope and purpose outlined in 1985 responded to that call, and continues today: ‘It is intended to aid the continuing discussion and evaluation of [...] Women in Canada allows readers to better understand the experience of women compared to that of men. [...] Status of Women Canada and collaborating federal organization’s financial support of the publication Women in Canada helps fulfill the Government of Canada’s commitment to encourage Gender-Based Analysis (GBA).
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Pages
379
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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