gender equality

None of Canada's TSX 60 companies were headed by a woman and two-thirds did not include a single woman among top earners during their latest fiscal year, reveals a Canadian Press analysis of corporate Canada's highest ranks.

Women now represent 47 per cent of business owners in Canada, but according to SheEO, a Toronto-based organization that supports women entrepreneurs, only four per cent of venture capital goes to Canadian companies led by women.

Justin Trudeau is being lampooned in a new video by the anti-poverty organization led by his friend and U2 frontman Bono for not having a concrete plan to advance his feminist agenda at the G7.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being asked to raise the concerns of marginalized women — and not just female business leaders — when he champions gender equality around the G7 table at a resort in La Malbaie, Que., in June.

Russia is using Ukraine as a test ground for its information war against Western democracy, Ukraine's foreign minister told G7 ministers meeting here on Sunday, April 22, 2018.

Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt is accusing Finance Minister Bill Morneau of hypocrisy when it comes to budget measures aimed at boosting the equality of women and their participation in the workforce.

A woman is taking the permanent helm of the RCMP for the first time ever, a move Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will promote gender equality at an organization plagued by complaints of sexual discrimination and workplace bullying.

Canada's federal finance minister said on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, the country must do better in closing the gender gap in pay and workforce participation for the health of the economy, but acknowledged getting to parity will be difficult.

The Liberal government is trying to move beyond the obvious in its quest for gender equality, thinking outside the daycare box to more thoroughly examine how the federal budget would impact men and women in different ways — even before committing to a dime of spending.

Former first lady Michelle Obama delighted and captivated her Montreal audience on Monday night, highlighting education and gender equality in an hour-long chat.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, January 25, 2018, that Canada will double its commitment to the Global Partnership for Education fund.

After spending the past two weeks criss-crossing the country to speak with ordinary Canadians in town hall meetings, Justin Trudeau is heading to Switzerland where he'll rub elbows with the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The G7 summit taking place in Quebec's Charlevoix region later this year is an opportunity to have "frank and open" discussions on environmental and economic issues, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, January 17, 2018.

In Mexico City I met Maria, 20. She lives in one of Mexico City’s poorest neighborhoods where violence is a part of life. “Throughout my life, I’ve witnessed many situations of violence that I didn’t even know were violence,” she told me. “I’ve been in violent relationships that I thought were normal. Now I wonder, 'Why is it men can hit us?'"

Valérie Plante broke the glass ceiling when she was elected the first female mayor of Montreal. Who could have expected the reaction a fellow female mayor in Ontario got when she proposed a letter of congratulations?