THREE MORE WAYS THE BUDGET PLANS TO INCREASE GENDER EQUALITY

TRACKING PROGRESS THROUGH BETTER DATA:

The budget went through a full genderbased analysis, which involves thinking about how every tax or spending measure would impact men and women in different ways, while also taking things like age, income, ethnicity and other intersecting factors into account. The Liberals also included a “gender results framework,” which is meant to help them assess the impact this and future budgets will have on the greater goal of improving equality. To bolster these efforts going forward, the Liberals are also committing millions of dollars to improving the collection of data needed to do this. That includes $6.7 million over five years and $600,000 a year thereafter, for Statistics Canada to set up a new Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics.

SEXUAL ASSAULTS ON CAMPUS:

The Liberal government is committing $ 5.5 million over five years to develop a national framework aimed at addressing gender-based violence at universities and colleges. They are also backing up the initiative with a threat: if a post-secondary institution is not serious enough about dealing with on-campus sexual assault in 2019, the government will consider withdrawing funding. The federal gender- based violence strategy is also getting an additional $86 million over five years to focus on things like preventing dating violence among teenagers and giving more support to sexual assault centres located near Canadian Forces bases.

WOMEN AND GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD:

The Liberal government is also committing to increasing its overseas humanitarian aid budget by $2 billion over five years, which the budget says will be focused on supporting women and girls through its feminist international development policy. The budget also includes $ 20.3 million over five years to settle 1,000 more refugee women and girls from conflict zones around the globe.