Labour Force & Economic Issues

 Paid and Unpaid Work: Women in Nova Scotia Part 5 of a Statistical Series 2009 Edition

April, 2009

Considerable effort has been made to use the most up-to-date statistics available as well as to present data on the wide diversity of women in Nova Scotia, including younger women, older women, women of African descent and other racially-visible women, Aboriginal women, and women with disabilities. The array of topics covered has now expanded to include a section on women's health, well-being and personal safety, sections on demography and family life, education, paid and unpaid work, and income/poverty. These changes and the resulting statistical series will appeal to an even wider audience and will be of use to many individuals and organizations.

 

 Employability of Women with Disabilities

September 2006

Employability of Women with Disabilities: Breaching the Disability Wall: A Brief to the to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Consultations on Employability in Canada

This brief makes recommendations to foster the employability of women with disabilities, with a view to improving their economic security and ensuring that Canada benefits from their contributions. The brief reviews persuasive evidence for the continued economic and labour market difficulties confronting women with disabilities, and makes recommendations.

 

 Women with Disabilities

April, 2006

Nova Scotia has the highest proportion of persons living with a disability among all the provinces with one in five women and men over the age of 15 reporting some type of disability or chronic health condition in 2001. As the overall disability rate increases substantially with age, and, as the majority of seniors (especially older seniors) are women, older women are disproportionately affected by disability.

 

 Money Matters (revised edition)

May, 2006

Part 1 of a statistical series on Women in Nova Scotia.
A report on the economic situation of women in Nova Scotia originally released in 2001 as part of its Women in Nova Scotia series.

The report brings together a wide variety of statistics on women's earnings and income and shows how factors such as family status and women's continuing responsibility for childcare affects their economic security. The report also provides an overview of the economic situations of diverse groups of women.

 

 Women and Public Pensions: Working Towards Equitable Policy Change

March, 2006

 Executive Summary

An Initiative of the Women's Centres in the Western area of Nova Scotia: Tri-County Women's Centre in Yarmouth, Second Story Women's Centre in Bridgewater, and The Women's Place Resource Centre in Bridgetown. Project funded by the Women's Program, Status of Women Canada

Note: This publication is an independent research publication, funded by Status of Women Canada. The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women was one of the supporting groups on the project.

 

 Women and the Minimum Wage in Nova Scotia

February, 2005

A Brief prepared by the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women on gender issues and the minimum wage in Nova Scotia submitted to the Department of Environment and Labour.

 

 Submission of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women to the Government of Canada's Federal Labour Standards Review

November, 2005

Federal leadership is an essential component in the protection of Canada's most vulnerable workers, the majority of whom are women. Federal labour standards should be designed to support the legitimate security of employment for all workers in federally-regulated workplaces.

 

 Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Women in Nova Scotia, Part 5 of a Statistical Series

June 14, 2004

CHANGES TO WOMEN'S PAID AND UNPAID WORK PUBLICATION
The Advisory Council has revised two of the graphs (figures 22 and 23) in its statistical publication, Women's Paid and Unpaid Work. After releasing data on the unemployment and labour force participation rates of women and men with disabilities, Statistics Canada made corrections to its PALS data and re-released it. Our revised publication now reflects these corrections.

 Backgrounder of above document.

 

 Building Transitions to Good Jobs for Low-Income Women

 Summary and Recommendations

July 7, 2004