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Women in Canada at a Glance: Statistical Highlights
Women in Canada at a Glance is designed to serve as both a quick source of up-to-date statistical data on women and girls in Canada and a guide to the comprehensive report from Statistics Canada and Status of Women Canada, Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report, Sixth Edition (2012). The full report, including all 12 chapters, is available on Statistics Canada's website.
Acknowledgement of source:
Produced by Status of Women Canada, adapted from Women in Canada: a Gender-based Statistical Report, 6th edition, Statistics Canada, 2012. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
All tables and charts are from Women in Canada: a Gender-based Statistical Report, 6th edition, Statistics Canada, 2012. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables and Charts
- Introduction
- Female Population
- Families, Living Arrangements and Unpaid Work
- Women and Health
- Women and Education
- Paid Work
- Economic Well-being
- Women and the Criminal Justice System
- Aboriginal Women: First Nations, Métis and Inuit
- Immigrant Women
- Visible Minority Women
- Senior Women
- Women with Activity Limitations
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Funding
Gender-based Analysis and Strategic Policy
Commemorative Dates
- International Women's Day (March 8)
- Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case
- Women's History Month (October)
- International Day of the Girl
- National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (December 6)
- Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada
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- About Canadian Women
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