Mitzi Dean recently took a ride on the bus along Highway 16 in northern B.C. and sat next to a mother and her child. They were taking a two-hour trip to visit Grandma.
“That bus service is having a real impact on families and on future generations,” says Dean, who has been a driving force behind the provincial government’s use of so-called gender-based analysis plus, or GBA+, for its 2019-20 budget. Child care allows women to return to the workforce, helping decrease Canada’s gender wage gap, which is worse than the OECD average. Reducing the wage gap, in turn, will eventually cut the disproportionately greater number of female seniors living in poverty.
Caroline Criado Perez argues in her book Invisible Women that society has largely built for men, despite women making up 51 per cent of the population. In clinical trials of new drugs, she notes, women are often left out because their more complicated bodies with their monthly menstrual cycles and varying hormone levels produced too many variables. The fact that women are then prescribed some of those drugs, which might have dangerous side effects because of hormonal shifts, well, it’s just been too bad for us.
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