Results at a glance

Addressing Violence against Women and Girls

• Launched It’s Time: Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence, the first federal gender-based violence (GBV) strategy.
• Supported federal partners’ initiatives including: the Commission of Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the National Housing Strategy, and gender and culturally sensitive training programs for public safety officials.
• Collaborated with Statistics Canada to fill urgent gaps in the knowledge base, on the nature and extent of violence against women and girls.
• Announced $20 million in new funding and launched the GBV Program’s first call for concepts to develop promising practices that strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for underserved populations of survivors of GBV.
• Promoted action and social change through commemorative events such as the 16 Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence, including through a new partnership with the Canadian Football League.

Strengthening the Implementation of Gender-based Analysis Plus

• Implemented the Government of Canada’s Action Plan on Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+), in collaboration with central agency partners and all federal departments by:
  • Expanding interactive online GBA+ tools and training.
  • Developing sector-specific training for clusters of federal departments.
  • Organizing and delivering GBA+ Awareness Week.
• Supported the integration and improvement of GBA+ in all Memoranda to Cabinet, Treasury Board Submissions and budget proposals, and the inclusion of a GBA+ lens in Departmental Plans and Departmental Results Reports.
• Supported the development of Canada’s first gender-responsive federal budget.
• Developed, in collaboration with the Department of Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, the Gender Results Framework, introduced in Budget 2018.

Increasing the Representation of Women in Leadership Roles

• Worked with federal partners to increase the representation of women in leadership roles by supporting legislative amendments (Bill C-25) to encourage greater diversity in corporate leadership.
• Undertook and funded research to improve knowledge and data availability related to the representation of women in leadership roles.
• Invested, through grants and contributions, in projects to mobilize women leaders and organizations across Canada, including engaging 150 women leaders across the country in a pan-Canadian network of women leaders to promote collaborative action to advance gender equality.
• Took action to encourage the private and public sectors to promote more women in senior level positions.
• Promoted women’s leadership through ongoing commemorative events such as Persons Day and International Women’s Day.

Promoting Women’s Economic Security and Prosperity

• Worked with federal partners to address the gender wage gap by supporting:
  • the implementation of the Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework;
  • the development of proactive pay equity legislation; and
  • the introduction of the new Parental Sharing Benefit.
• Undertook and funded research to improve knowledge and data availability in key policy areas (e.g., economic well-being; gendered segmentation of educational fields and occupations; labour force participation; work-life balance; and child care).
• Collaborated with provincial and territorial governments to identify and define key indicators to best measure the economic situation of women.
• Invested through grants and contributions, to support projects that address systemic barriers to women’s economic security.