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The aim of this paper is to review and evaluate policies designed to create gender equality in Canada over roughly the past 30 years with a view to determining what impact, if any, they have had on the status of women. After considering 29 indicators, and noting some of their advantages and disadvantages, it is concluded that all things considered, there is more evidence of improvement than of deterioration in the status of women, including more evidence of progress toward gender equality, since the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada.
The original version of this paper was written for a conference on the Evaluation of Equality Policies held at the International University Menendez Pelayo, in Santander, Spain, June 29-July 1, 1998, sponsored by the Instituto de la Mujer of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales. As always, I owe much of my understanding of issues surrounding gender equality to Deborah C. Poff and I would like to thank her again here. I would also like to thank Toni Fletcher for helping with data collection, and those at the Institute de la Mujer for inviting me to the conference. Of course I am finally responsible for the paper as it now stands.
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Michalos, A.C. (2003). Evaluation of Equality Policies for The Status of Women in Canada. In: Essays on the Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0389-5_3
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