SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Canadian Human Rights Act, Quid Pro Quo, Marilyn Waring
12 Apr 2014
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Women constitute 1/2 of the world"s population, perform nearly 2/3 of its work hours, receive 1/10 of the world"s income and still own less than 1% of the world"s property. United nations: pay equity in canada: a brief history, r. v. howard (1970) Female nurses aid and male doctors, although their job titles were different, they were substantively doing the same work, and women get paid significantly less: public service alliance of canada (psac) case and the principle of. 2011 finally recognized women as being underpaid: contemporary pay equity legislation is proactive (rather than complaint- based), however, it has many limitations. Contemporary legislation has all time of limitations in all provinces except. Ontario, because what pay equity does is it creates a fictional universe and that the only reason why people are discriminated towards is because of gender, women are paid less than men and its simply because they are woman. Consider all of women"s labour, both paid and unpaid.
