SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Labour Power, Intersectionality, False Dilemma
22 Mar 2016
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Sowk 1000 women, the welfare state and social work. Discussion: impact on social policy & services. Setting the context: women in canada (*link in lecture slide*) Women & girls comprise just over half of canada"s population: 2010: 12. 2 million females accounted for 50. 4% of total population. Female population in canada, like population in general, is aging. Rising # of women & girls in canada identify as aboriginal person: 2006: 600,700 women & girls, or 3. 8% of total female population, reported. Aboriginal identity first nations (north american indian), m tis or inuit up from 3. 3% in 2001 & 2. 8% in 1996. Nunavut: 86% of women & girls reported aboriginal identity, as did 52% of females in. Northwest territories and 26% in yukon: manitoba had highest share of females w/ aboriginal identity (16%), followed by. 14%, more than twice the pace of canada"s total female population, 5. 6% Women living in same-sex union represented 0. 6% of all women in couples in canada in.
