SOCIAL ISSUES READINGS January 2021

Indigenous Issues

Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto designers are showcasing resistance and resurgence It’s time: Chief calls for an ‘evolutionary jump’ in gender equality at AFN For Indigenous women, systemic racial bias in prison leaves many worse off than men Federal, provincial officials discuss ways to counter anti-Indigenous racism in health care Environmental Issues Covid-19 recovery is an opportunity to tackle worsening climate crisis: New report [Opinion] Indigenous leadership is crucial to protecting the planet How climate action can benefit from Indigenous tradition of '7th-generation decision-making' Gender, Race & Society [Long read] The power gap: Women are outnumbered and outranked at Canada’s vital public institutions, Globe analysis finds The world needs more women leaders during COVID-19 and beyond [Opinion] Racialized women have been the backbone of society through COVID-19. Our pandemic response must make them a priority What we don’t know about the history of slavery in Canada — and why we don’t talk about it Child Care Parental leave for fathers saved marriages, say researchers National daycare system will need more money to lower fees, expand spaces, Hussen says Single parents left behind in Canada’s labour recovery [Long read] The case for affordable childcare Girls Breaking Boundaries: How Two Ugandan Girls Challenged Period Poverty “Do One Tiny Thing. Then Do Another”: Anyone Can Be An Activist, Says Amika George Meet 4 Activist Girls Trying To Save The World From Climate Change Miscellaneous Marvel’s First on Screen Muslim Superhero – Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel’s Alter Ego – Inspires Big Hopes Sex Workers Reflect on the Fantasy of “Pretty Woman” On Zoom Men Don’t Like Feeling Watched and Judged but Women are Used to It Changing the game — and the conversation — around Muslim women in sports

Gender, Care Work and the Unequal Impacts of the Pandemic February 24, 6-7:30pm (online)

Our Social Issues Discussions return this February, with a conversation about gender, care work, and the unequal impacts of the pandemic. The pandemic has exposed and deepened inequalities in our society and threatens to roll back decades of progress towards gender equality. At the same time, not all women and gender-diverse people have experienced the pandemic in the same way, and racialized and Indigenous communities, lower-income workers, and caregivers, for example, continue to face distinct struggles. Join us for a discussion on how diverse women—with a particular focus on women from communities experiencing marginalization—have been “frontlined and sidelined” by the pandemic. Register here on our website.

New reports and resources

Vibrant Communities Calgary has published the Poverty Snapshot in Calgary – Laying Bare Inequities: COVID-19, Gender, Race and Precarious Employment. Summary of findings is available here.   A report by CWF, ONN and CCPA - Recovery through Equality: Developing an Inclusive Action Plan for Women in the Economy - argues that “centering marginalized women and focusing on initiatives in fragile women-majority sectors – many of them undervalued care sectors – can provide women with the broadest and deepest pandemic economic recovery.” A new briefing paper from Oxfam – “The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus” – warns that the “coronavirus pandemic has the potential to lead to an increase in inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began." Read the summary or the full report.

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