Policy & Gender Based Analysis
Great Sites
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women
www.criaw-icref.ca
Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action
www.fafia-afai.org
Status of Women Canada
www.swc-cfc.gc.ca
Canadian Women’s Foundation
www.canadianwomen.org
The Canadian CED Network (CCEDNET)
www.ccednet-rcdec.ca
Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
www.policyalternatives.ca
Caledon Institute of Social Policy
www.caledoninst.org
Tamarack
www.tamarackcommunity.ca
Canadian Council on Social Development
www.ccsd.ca
Canadian Policy Research Networks
www.cprn.org
Le Groupe Femmes, Politique et Democratie
www.femmes-politique-et-democratie.com
Suggested Reading
Gendered Jobs’ and ‘Gendered Workers’: Barriers to Gender Equality in Gendered Organizations by Lindsay Payne (2002)
http://www.worklifecanada.ca
Gender: Challenging Attitudes, Conceptualizations and Theories Relevant
to Work and Family Roles, by Tiffany Hunt (2002)
http://www.worklifecanada.ca
Work in a family business and gender relations: A case study of recent
Korean immigrant women. Author: Min-Jung Kwak
www.worklifecanada.ca
What is Policy? (2005) by Sherri Torjmam
www.caledoninst.org
A Decade of Going Backwards: Canada in the Post-Beijing Era(2005) by Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action.
www.fafia-afai.org
Assessing the Federal Budget 2005: What’s in it for Women? (2005) by Armine Yalnizyan (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action)
www.fafia-afai.org
Canada’s Commitment to Equality: A Gender Analysis of the Last Ten Federal Budgets (1995-2004) by Armine Yalnizyan
www.fafia-afai.org
Developing the Policy Framework for Social and Economic Inclusion: Women-centred CED in the 21st Century (2005) by the Canadian Women’s Community Economic Development Council
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Gender Budget Initiatives: Why They Matter in Canada (2005)by Isabella Bakker (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
www.policyalternatives.ca
Social Policy, Gender Inequality and Poverty (2001) by Lorraine Davies and Julie Ann McMullin
http://publications.gc.ca
Women in Non-Standard Jobs: The Public Policy Challenge(2003) by Monica Townson
http://www.publications.gc.ca/
Women in Parliament (2004) by FAFIA
www.fafia-afai.org
Intersectional Feminist Frameworks: An Emerging Vision
www.criaw-icref.ca
Poverty
Great Sites
United Nations Development Fund for Women
www.unifem.org
Suggested Reading
Divided and Distracted: Regionalism as Obstacle to Reducing Poverty and Inequality (2005) by Armine Yalnizyan (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
www.policyalternatives.ca
Fact Sheet on Women and Poverty (2005) by CRIAW
www.criaw-icref.ca/
Financial Capability and Poverty (2004) by SEDI
www.policyresearch.gc.ca
Gender Based Analysis in Community-Based Poverty Reduction: A Report on the Gender and Poverty Project (2004) by Catherine Lang and Toby Goldberg-Leong (Vibrant Communities)
www.tamarackcommunity.ca
Poverty and Exclusion: Normative Approaches to Policy Research (2004) by Pearl Eliadis (PRI Project)
www.policyresearch.gc.ca
Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty by Marta Chen et al (UNIFEM)
www.unifem.org/resources/
Social Policy, Gender Inequality and Poverty (2001) by Lorraine Davies and Julie Ann McMullin
http://publications.gc.ca
Disentangling the Web of Women’s Poverty and Exclusion
www.criaw-icref.ca
UN COMMITTEE CRITICIZES CANADA FOR PERSISTENT POVERTY IN THE MIDST OF WEALTH
www.fafia-afai.org
Social Economy
Great Sites
Social Enterprise Alliance
www.se-alliance.org
Social Procurement
Accelerating Social Impact CCC
Suggested Reading
What We Need to Know About the Social Economy: A guide for policy research (2005) by Alan Painter
www.policyresearch.gc.ca
Women and Work
Great Sites
Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being University of Guelph
www.worklifecanada.ca
Suggested Reading
Work Life Compendium – 150 Canadian Statistics on Work, Family and Well-Being
dsp-psd.communication.gc.ca
National Study on Balancing Work, Family and Lifestyle
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca
Part-time Work and Family Friendly Practices in Canadian Workplaces
www.uoguelph.ca
Work Life Practices and Flexibility in Small Businesses: A Canadian Research Report
www.uoguelph.ca
A Self-Employment Discussion Paper (2000) by Robert Wilson and Simon Bailey (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/Resources/Publications.aspx
The Prime Minister’s Task Force Report on Women Entrepreneurs (2003)
www.liberal.parl.gc.ca
Shattering the Glass Box? Women Entrepreneurs and the Knowledge-based Economy(1998) by Serge Nadeau
www.ic.gc.ca
Sustaining the Momentum: An Economic Forum on Women Entrepreneurs. Summary Report (2005)
http://www.cmcweb.ca/eic/site/iccat.nsf/eng/03949_5.html
Women in Non-Standard Jobs: The Public Policy Challenge (2003) by Monica Townson
http://www.publications.gc.ca
For Women
Great Sites
Economic Development Supports Export Development Canada
www.edc.ca/
Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia Women and Community Economic Development
www.womenscednetwork.org
ACOA women in Business Initiative
www.acoa.ca
Centre for Women in Business Halifax
www.msvu.ca/cwb/
Ontario
Community Microskills Development Centre
www.microskills.ca/
PARO
www.paro.ca
Social and Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI)
http://prospercanada.org/
Western Canada
Women’s Enterprise Centres
Manitoba – www.wecm.ca
Alberta – www.aweia.ab.ca
Saskatchewan – www.womenentrepreneurs.sk.ca
BC – www.wes.bc.ca
General
Great Sites
Womenspace
www.womenspace.ca
Caters Design Group
www.catersdesigngroup.com
Simply Reports
www.simplyreports.com
Health
Canadian Women’s Health Network
www.cwhn.ca
Women’s Health Matters
www.womenshealthmatters.ca
Legal
National Association of Women and the Law
www.nawl.ca
For CED Practitioners
Great Sites
The Canadian CED Network
www.ccednet-rcdec.ca
Canadian Women’s Foundation On Line Resource Development Tool
www.cdnwomen.org/CWF-tool-en/
Community Economic Development Across Canada
www.cedcanada.ca
Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program
www.carleton.ca/cedtap/