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The Deputy Prime Minister will virtually moderate the opening plenary session of Canada s Feminist Response and Recovery Summit, which is being hosted by the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development.
Panelists participating in the opening session include:
Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson fellow, Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Monique F. Leroux, Chair Industry Strategy, former President and CEO, Desjardins Group
Roberta Jamieson, former Chief Executive Officer, Indspire
Sarah Kaplan, Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
The Summit will be livestreamed on Women and Gender Equality Canada s Facebook page and at the following link: https://video.isilive.ca/wage/2021-03/english/.
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the creation of a task force on women and the economy Monday and said better child care must be part of an economic recovery plan.
Timed to coincide with International Women’s Day, the minister launched the 18-member task force and played host to the opening discussion at a two-day federal conference called Canada’s Feminist Response and Recovery Summit.
Each experience will be different, Schlamp said, but there are similar uniting factors for those working toward women s equality. There will be people who have been on the front lines of fighting for equality and equity in women s paid work, and in recognizing the importance of the need for child care and the burden that women have had in terms of care positions and things like that, of often underpaid and undervalued work in our communities, for a long time, she said.
Schlamp said the pandemic has meant scaled-down celebrations, but the YWCA will put resources into a short film on the history of the women of distinction award in this province, and look ahead to International Women s Day in 2022.
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