Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, & Two-Spirit People Awareness
The Women’s Centre would like to recognize May 5th and acknowledge the 231 calls to action outlined in the Reclaiming Power and Place: thefinal report from the National Inquiry in Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls and reinforce the need to support advocacy efforts to implement the calls.
Read about nine new initiatives, from allowing the costs of surrogacy to be eligible for a tax credit, to stopping harassment in sports, to studying long COVID and the future of cryptocurrencies in Canada.
May 3 at 6:30 P.M. - join Momentum for an event featuring three financial experts with advice on coping with the rising cost of living.
Resources
Institute for Gender and the Economy has a new brief on the gender pay gap.
The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law reportmeasures global progress toward gender equality in the law, specifically laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity.
Shed Light, Build Resilience, Part 1synthesizing most recent evidence available at the nexus between climate change and gender, with a particular focus on identifying intersectional implications of climate change for diverse groups in Canada.
The Women’s History Projectstrives to be a gateway, encouraging the discovery of women's history in Canada from an intersectional and inter-generational perspective.
At the Centre - Highlights
Annual General Meeting
Join us for our Annual General Meeting on Thursday, May 26, 5:30 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at the Women’s Centre.
Come and hear about the highlights from 2021 and help us elect a new Board of Directors. The business meeting will be followed by refreshments. This is a community event open to all genders. To register, emailRSVP@womenscentrecalgary.org or call (403) 264-1155.
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