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Toronto Women’s City Alliance Official Plan Teach-in 2013
Our Publications
- OP Review Policy Proposals April 2015
- Communities in which Women Count – The Women’s Equalities Report Card Project
- TWCA’s Recommendations on the Toronto Official Plan Review
- A New Deal for Women: What Women in Toronto Need
- Recreation and Leisure; how do city services touch women’s lives?
- Taking Care of Our Children; how do city services touch women’s lives?
- Moving Through the City; how do city services touch women’s lives?
- Housed and Sheltered; how do city services touch women’s lives?
- TWCA Policy brochure (Korean)
- TWCA Policy brochure (Chinese)
- TWCA Policy brochure (Korean)
- TWCA Policy brochure (Vietnamese)
- TWCA Policy brochure (Spanish)
Resources for Women
Local
Provincial and National
- Making Votes Count Where We Live
- How Women-friendly is your City?
- A Child Care Strategy for Canada
- Gendered Cities: Built and Physical Environments
- Gender Mainstreaming in Local Governments
- Women Poverty in Cities
- Racialized and Immigrant Women in Cities
- Parliamentary Oversight of Gender Equality
- Women and Precarious Work: A Framework for Policy Recommendations
- Women shut out of Employment Insurance: Study
- Women with Disabilities in the Urban Environment
- Women, Equity and Cities – Some Key Resources
International
- Vienna, Austria: A Model City for Gender Mainstreaming
- Intersectionality: A Tool for Gender and Economic Justice
- Diffusion of Local Regulatory Innovations: San Francisco CEDAW Ordinance & New York City Human Rights Initiative
- Local Governments Need to Work Harder for Women
- Gender Responsive Budgeting: Definitions & Resources
- Girls Count – A Global Investment & Action Agenda
- Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective
- Convention on the Elmination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Media Links
- Young Women Fail to Close Income Gap (Statscan)
- Political Pledges to Women are Hard to Believe (Toronto Star, June 11, 2008)
- Women Better Educated, Still Paid Less (Statscan)
- Can Harper Align Venus with Mars
- Women Pin Hopes on Queen’s Park (Toronto_Star, March 19, 2008)
- Breaking That Elusive Glass Ceiling (Toronto Star, Jan 31, 2008)
- Women are Never Front-Runners (The New York Times, Jan 9, 2008)
- Gender Inequality Distorts Politics (Toronto Star, Nov 27, 2007)
- Why Immigrant Women May Be the Stronger Sex (Toronto Star, Nov 3, 2007)
- Women Still Making Less Despite Learning More (Globe and Mail, June 12, 2007)
- Gender Equality Ends at the Pew (Toronto Star, May 30, 2007)
- Muslim Women Struggling for Their Basic Human Rights (Toronto Star, March 8, 2007)
- Women Still Outside in Politics (Toronto Star, Jan 16, 2007)
Other Useful Links
National
- City of Toronto
- Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD)
- Status of Women Canada (SWC)
- Federation of Canadian Municipalities: Women in Local Government Program
- City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) Initiative; une ville pour toutes les femmes (IVTF)
- Feminist Alliance for International Action
- Directory of Canadian Women’s Resources
- Equal Voice: An Action Group for the Election of Women
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