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Status of Women Canada
Status of Women Canada (SWC) is the federal government agency which promotes gender equality, and the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country. SWC focuses its work in three areas: improving women's economic autonomy and well-being, eliminating systemic violence against women and children, and advancing women's human rights.
Setting the Stage for the Next Century
Canada, along with all United Nations member countries, was called upon to formulate a national plan to advance the situation of women, both within its own borders and globally. This document is Canada's response to that request and its contribution toward the goals of the global Platform for Action to be adopted at the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in September 1995.
New Direction for the Women's Program of Status of Women Canada
Describes the new Women's Program framework and funding mechanism that came into effect in April 1997 after the Program was transferred into Status of Women Canada. Includes information on the Program's mandate, objectives, definition of equality, guiding principles, areas of focus, funding support, reasons for change, how the new funding mechanism will work, and how the changes will be implemented.
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Canada's National Report to the United Nations for the Fourth World Conference on Women
This report provides information on Canada's national and international activities and accomplishments that address the needs of Canadian women and that will bring them closer to equality with men. It begins with a review and appraisal at the national level, describing the situation of women in the early 1980s as background to describing changes since then. These changes are reviewed under the following headings: sharing of power and decision-making at all levels; mechanisms to promote advancement of women; awareness of and commitment to nationally and internationally recognised women's human rights; poverty; women's access to and participation in the definition of economic structures and po...
