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Publications

What’s New:

• The Competitive Advantage: A Business Case for Hiring Women in the Skilled Trades and Technical Professions
  - (Compiled by the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum on behalf of the Forum of Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers responsible for the Status of Women)
  PDF (25 pages, 1.62 MB)*
• Promising Practices: Healthy Relationships and Dating Violence Prevention Programs in Canadian Schools
  - (Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) Forum of Ministers Responsible for the Status of Women)
  PDF (2 pages, 1.15 MB)*

Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, 7^th Edition

Beyond Appearances: Brief on the Main Issues Facing Girls in Canada, 2013 (Girls Action Foundation, PDF format 1.44 MB*

Explore by Topics

Legal Instruments of Equality for Women
Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Women in Rural, Remote and Northern Communities
Ending Violence against Women
Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+)

• Girls and Young Women in Canada

  • Brief: How Can We Encourage Girls and Young Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math? in html

  Voting Rights

  • Women's Right to Vote in Canada (Parliament of Canada)
  • Winning of the Vote by Women National Historical Event (Parks Canada)
  • Voting Rights (Canadian Human Rights Commission)

  Women in Politics

  • Women Members of the Ministry (Parliament of Canada)
  • Women in the Senate (Parliament of Canada)
  • Women - Party Standings in the Senate (Parliament of Canada)
  • Women - Federal Political Representation (Parliament of Canada)
  • Women Candidates in General Elections - 1921 to Date (Parliament of Canada)
  • Women - Party Standings in the House of Commons - Current List (Unofficial) (Parliament of Canada)
  • Members of the House of Commons - Women (Parliament of Canada)

  Women's History

  • Celebrating Women's Achievements (Archived) (Library and Archives Canada)

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