Events
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Women’s Economic Inequality
Time: 5:00 p.m. EST via ZOOM
While Canada can celebrate October’s “Women’s History Month,” women’s economic inequality mars the little economic parity achieved. There continues to be a lack of employment equality, impediments with job segregation, a lack of promotion and pay equity for work of equal value, and no recognition of unpaid work with child care. The economic effects of racism, violence against women, and poverty have also contributed to a lack of economic gender equality. We also bear witness to the impact of Covid-19 on the economic fallout for women. Even before the pandemic, tangible progress for gender and economic parity has been uneven, with significant gender gaps remaining across the globe. The financial data is self-evident. The magnitude of economic inequity and the vulnerabilities of women is striking.
The MCW is honoured to have leading Canadian researchers and activists expose the current challenges in achieving economic parity for women with our virtual panel on October 6, 2022, at 5 p.m. Please ensure you register your zoom participation.
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Panelists
Deena Ladd, Executive Director, Workers’ Action Centre
For the past 29 years, Deena has organized alongside workers for decent work in sectors and workplaces with low-wage, unstable employment. She has worked to support and develop grassroots training, education and organizing with groups, including the Justice for Workers campaign (formerly the Fight for $15 and Fairness), Decent Work and Health Network, and the Migrant Workers’ Alliance for Change. In 2022, Deena Ladd, founding member and Executive Director of the Workers’ Action Centre, received an honorary doctorate from Brock University, celebrating her commitment to championing workers’ rights.
Katherine Scott, Senior Researcher, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Katherine is a Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and serves as the director of its gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as a researcher, writer and advocate over the past 25 years, writing on various issues from social policy to inequality to funding for nonprofits. She is currently working on a national project examining the labour market experiences of marginalized female workers to identify policy and program alternatives for advancing women’s economic security in the post-pandemic economy.
She has served as Vice President of Research at the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) for several years. She has produced research and analysis for organizations such as Prosper Canada, Volunteer Canada, Capacity Canada, Pathways to Education Canada, and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Dr. Claudine Mangen, JMSB, Economist and Researcher
Dr. Claudine Mangen’s research focuses on organizational governance and gender inequalities. She is currently exploring the ways in which organizational governance contributes to upholding and disrupting gender inequalities.
Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, European Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research and Human Relations. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. She regularly presents her work at academic conferences and workshops, blogs about it, and shares it through media, including at The Conversation.
Dr. Mangen is the lead researcher on the SSHRC-funded research program “Disruptive Dames? The process of disruption underlying women’s transition into organizational leadership”, which is funded until 2027. It explores the process underlying the disruption of gender inequalities in the leadership of for-profit organizations in Canada.
At Concordia, Dr. Mangen has held the RBC Professorship in Responsible Organizations since 2013. Over her career, she has taught Disclosures of (Ir)responsible Organizations to Ph.D. students, Corporate Finance to MBA students, Accounting Theory to undergraduate students.