2. GENDER EQUALITY STATISTICS AND INDICATORS:
THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE

3. OVERVIEW Gender statistics vs. Gender Indicators
Institutional arrangements
Federal examples
Provincial examples
Accomplishments & Challenges

4. Gender Statistics vs. Gender Indicators
Statistics: an information explosion!
Indicators: a partial remedy?

5. Gender Equality Indicators
Compare women and men
Concise, but comprehensive
Address central policy concerns
work
health
Cultural diversity
personal safety

6. ‘Good Indicators’ Concise Intuitively meaningful to public
to decision-makers
Rigorous, valid
to statisticians, economists, other academic audiences

7. ‘Excellent Indicators’
Factors causing change are known and quantified
Modeling of impact of interventions is possible

8. The Canadian Context A confederation: 14 jurisdictions
Separate and shared responsibilities and powers
14 Status of Women Ministers and offices lead GBA initiatives
Women’s groups, think tanks and universities are important players
No overarching authority

9. Federal Examples Statistics Canada Economic Gender Equality Indicators
Women’s Health Indicators
Mandated Statistical Reporting: National and International

10. Statistics Canada A resource of fundamental importance
Finding Data on Women
Women in Canada –a compendium

11. Economic Gender Equality Indicators
Equality of outcomes considered
Explicit attention to paid and unpaid work
Innovative in conceptual as well as technical approach
Knowledge exchange based on indicators

12. Women’s Health Indicators
Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada
A Profile of Women’s Health Indicators in Canada has been produced.
Ongoing work to fill data gaps, measurement of women’s health status and outcomes

13. Mandated Statistical Reporting
Employment Insurance
Employment Equity Act
Income security and pension programs
Student loans
Taxation measures
CEDAW – and NGOs

14. Provincial Examples
Newfoundland and Labrador
Nova Scotia
Quebec

15. Newfoundland and Labrador
Women’s Policy Office
Community Counts System

16. Nova Scotia Statistical Series Community Counts
Healthy Balance Research Program

17. Quebec
A Gender Based Approach: field trials on a management initiative
11 departments and agencies,
Gender based approach vs. woman-specific remedial measures

18. Accomplishments Solid statistics Strong institutional framework
Good government and NGO linkages

19. Challenges What does equality mean today?
How can we pay due attention to diversity?
What models for achieving equality underlie our efforts?
How can we move from statistical compendia to indicators?