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ENGLISH PROJECT
STUDENTS’ NAME: ___JESUS ALFREDO JIMENEZ SOLIS, JOSE ALBERTO NUÑEZ RIVERA, GABRIEL ALEJANDRO
RAMIREZ MILLAN
GROUP: ________ CAREER IN: ING, PETROLEO Y GAS__________ _ RANK OF INSTRUMENT: 10%

DUE DATE: MONDAY , MARCH 19thth 2018.__________ __ __ PERIOD: Partial 1_

DIRECTIONS: In trios or pairs, you are going to do a research about Gender Inequality in Canada.
Look for Information about women rights in society, for example education, politics, culture and
others. Write about how women have reached her rights, what the percentage is of women
worked in parliaments, for example, or other aspects. Add at least three references.

LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE
PERFORMANCE
YES NO
A) Is the Information well organized in Word Doc? If yes, 1 point .

B) Was the new vocabulary used correctly? If yes, 1 point

C) Is any necessary information missing? If no, 1 point

D) Are there sentences well structured? If yes, 1 point

E) Are some bar graphs included? if no, 1 point

F) Do all the verbs agree with their subjects? (e.g. she have has done / he has gone …) if yes, 1 point

G) Have all the words been spelt correctly? If yes, 1 point

Unaccredited 1 –3 POINTS
7% 4 POINTS
LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE 8% 5 POINTS
9% 6 POINTS
10% 7 POINTS
Final Grade:

Teacher’s Signature
 GENDER EQUALITY IN CANADA

Canada is a country that respects and protects the human rights of its citizens.
The principle of equality between men and women, as well as the express
prohibition of any kind of discrimination based on gender, are included in legal
norms. In 1977, the Canadian Charter of Human Rights "Canadian Law on
Human Rights", whose main purpose is ensure equal opportunities and prohibit
discrimination in the federal jurisdiction. The letter He also created the Canadian
Human Rights Commission, which began operating in 1978.

The Charter was based on the principle that each individual should have the
same opportunities as others to live without acts of discrimination. His intention
is to prevent people are treated unequally because of age, sex, race or other
reason provided in the Letter. Differential treatment is called discrimination and
is prohibited by law. The Canadian Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in
organizations governed by federal regulations, and provinces and territories have
similar norms that prohibit it, equally, in the areas of their jurisdiction.
The "Status of Women Canada" directs its action in three areas: the improvement
of economic autonomy and the well-being of women, the elimination of systematic
violence against women and children and the advancement of women's rights.

The trajectory of actions in favor of women in Canada dates back to the beginning
of the year 1967, in which Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson set up a Royal
Commission on the Condition of the Woman "The Royal Commission on the
Status of Women".

With the creation of the Commission, the women's concern regarding their
condition. In addition, the Commission went beyond political symbolism by
providing a conceptual framework for research and advocacy rights of women
and create a vocabulary for the development and articulation of gender analysis
and the future feminist ideology.
The work of the Commission was broad and addressed issues related to the
participation of women in the country's economy; to his training; his place in the
family and his participation in the sector public and the world of politics. The
members of the Commission settled their work on the criteria and principles of:
• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
• Equality in practice as well as in principle.
• Equality of opportunities for all.
• Equality in sharing responsibilities as well as privileges and prerogatives.
In addition to these, four other specific principles were used and, for their day,
very ideological progressive. These were:
• Women should be free to choose if they want to work outside the home.
• Child care is a shared responsibility between mothers, fathers and the
society.
• Society must take responsibility for the pregnancy and birth of the children and
assume
that motherhood needs special treatment.
• In some fields, and for a limited period of time, some women may require a
special treatment, which allows them to overcome the effects of discriminatory
practices.

In 1970 the Commission presented a report in the Canadian Parliament

containing more than 160 recommendations to the federal government. As of that
year, many of the recommendations of the eleven report were adopted gradually.
Most of them were recommendations for eliminate barriers that impeded the entry
of women into certain jobs and institutions and to change discriminatory policies
and practices for women in the labor market.
As a result of the Report, changes such as the equalization of the minimum wage
for men occurred and women; the amendments to unemployment insurance to
recognize maternity leave; the amendments to the Workers' Statute to prohibit
maternity termination and amendments to the Indian Statute to allow the recovery
of the condition of band members (Aboriginal) to those women who, by reason of
marriage, have lost it. They were also carried out certain amendments to the
divorce law that allowed simplifying the legal requirements recognized as a
reason for divorce and adopt the practice of a more even distribution of assets.

Other initiatives that emerged from the Report were the creation, that same year
(1970), of a Committee of National Action (replacing the Committee for the
Equality of Women in Canada) in charge of monitoring of the actions of the
government in the application of the recommendations of the Report. To this
Committee replaced her in 1973 the National Action Committee on the Status of
Women, coalition that initially grouped 22 groups of women. At the same time, a
series was also created of Action Committees at the provincial level. Over time,
the National Action Committee on the status of Women became the largest
feminist organization in Canada, with more tan 700 affiliated groups. Its financing
came, in large part, from the government, at the beginning of the decade the 90s
calls again for the creation of a second commission to examine the changes and
analyze the new situations that women had to confront as consequence of such
changes. By such they referred to: the unequal representation of women in
certain professional fields; the impoverishment of women heads of single-parent
families; gender violence and the barriers faced by women in situations of
disability, minority visible, aboriginal status and sexual orientation different from
the norm.

In response to these calls, the Canadian federal government designed and

implemented two plans consecutive, five years, aimed at achieving greater
equality between men and women in Canadian society. The first, the Federal
Plan for Gender Equality "The Federal Plan for Gender Equality "(1,995 - 2,000).
The second, the Agenda for Gender Equality "Agenda for Gender Equality
"(2,000 - 2,005). In both plans, gender analysis was its component principal.

The Federal Plan for Gender Equality was based on the principle that men and
women should to be involved in the search for a just and equitable society, which
would have positive repercussions for both. The government in its evaluation of
the Plan argued that it was essential to sustain a society that values and treats
all its members with dignity and respect and pointed out that, at sight of the
complex social, political, cultural and economic realities of the world at the end of
the century, it was not possible to achieve such an objective in a hurry. In his
defense, he argued that persistence of inequality between men and women was
clear evidence of the need for a plan to long term.
The Plan based its focus on the Canadian government's belief that collaboration
horizontally among the different departments and government agencies was
fundamental to the effective implementation of new measures and initiatives. The
objective of the plan was to ensure that at the close of the twentieth century there
was a determination to improve the status of women in Canada and in the world.
For this purpose it was necessary to adopt measures and strategies to advance
the gender equality. The Plan marked eight objectives:
• Implement gender analysis studies in departments and agencies governmental.
It was a process to inform and guide future policies and legislation at the federal
level. 13
• Improve the economic autonomy and well-being of women. It sought to promote
the valuation of paid and unpaid work carried out by women, the participation of
women in the paid and unpaid work market and the equitable distribution of work
and family responsibilities between men and women. It also sought to encourage
the participation of women in the business world and promote your economic
security and your well-being.
• Improve the physical and psychological well-being of women. I was trying to
anticipate a health strategy for women that recognizes and responds to their
nature in research, in the development of policies and in practices in the field of
health.
• Reduce violence in society, particularly violence against women and children. It
tried to reinforce existing measures and mechanisms to reduce gender violence
in the context of federal efforts to reduce violence in society in general.
• Promote gender equality in all aspects of cultural life in Canada. I tried to
reinforce the commemoration of the various contributions of women to history of
Canada, improve their access to the means of cultural expression, promote their
participation in the culture life and support the positive representation of women
in popular culture and in media.
Within the framework of this objective, in 1992, the Canadian federal government
celebrated in a official and for the first time the official month of women
• Incorporate women's perspectives in government. I tried to get access and
active participation of women with experiences and diverse circumstances at all
levels of government decision-making.

• Promote and support gender equality globally. It tried to reaffirm Canada's role
as a leader in the promotion of gender equality to global level.
• Advance the implementation of gender equality among department officials and
Federal agencies. It tried to contribute to the creation of equal opportunities and
results for the federal officials. Within the framework of this objective, 24
departments and agencies
The federal agencies examined their policies, programs and activities and
identified a series of actions to improve gender equality.

The second plan, the Agenda for Gender Equality "Agenda for Gender Equality",
consisted of a five-year strategy with the following components: • Generate
programs and initiatives supported by the Federal Plan for Gender Equality and
inform, in a coherent, deliberate and manifest manner, how these initiatives favor
both women and men. • Promote volunteering, including subsidizing new
organizations for the purpose of face new emerging issues. • Involve Canadians
in the government policy process in a substantial manner and structure that
allows women's experiences and perspectives to be considered in the current
government agendas and in the future • Comply with international commitments
and treaties assumed by Canada.
Despite the Reports, Plans and Agendas, to this day it still exists in Canadian
society differences in the situation of women with respect to men. While it is true
that in In recent decades many improvements have been made, there is still a
long way to go.