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The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) is a Canadian not for profit, charitable organization founded in 1976 which provides research to the public about relevant feminist issues. CRIAW is the only Canadian research institute focusing on feminist issues and making research accessible to all groups and individuals.
Organizations and activists are working to inform, persuade and change pay-rate laws. Women in the workforce are at a disadvantage; regardless of legislation, a global gender pay gap is still visible. [3] The OECD is a primary supplier of research and data pertaining to parental-leave rights. [1]
Girls Action Foundation provides funds and training to over 100 girls’ programs in communities across Canada. [2] It also offers programs, research and support to a network of over 300 partnering organizations and projects, reaching over 60,000 Canadian girls and young women annually, particularly in under-represented communities including Northern, racialised, low-income, Aboriginal [3] and ...
Starting this week, fathers and other non-birthing parents have an additional 5 weeks of use-it-or-lose-it time to stay home with their newborns.
MIRCI identifies its mandate as: A forum for the discussion and dissemination of research on motherhood, and to establish a community of individuals and institutions working and researching in the area of mothering and motherhood… to promote, showcase, and make visible maternal scholarship and accord legitimacy to the academic field.
Expenditures by federal and provincial organizations on scientific research and development accounted for about 10% of all such spending in Canada in 2006. These organizations are active in natural and social science research, engineering research, industrial research and medical research.
In 2017, CanWaCH held the Global Adolescent Health conference which facilitated the launch of the World Health Organization's report Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents. [6] The meeting was a forum for stakeholders, including youth representatives, to discuss challenges and opportunities to improve youth health.
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