Women in Harperland: A Critical Look at Gender Inequality in Canada Since 2006
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Abstract
This paper critically examines and summarizes the facts on gender inequality under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government. Since Stephen Harper’s election in 2006, arguably, women’s economic and social well being has weakened, therefore increasing gender inequality in Canada. This paper briefly discusses current national trends with regards to pay inequity, precarious employment options, income splitting, social infrastructure such as childcare and the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and lastly, violence against women. This paper additionally argues that with the near disappearance of the Status of Women Canada’s mandate, women are being written out of the national story; currently, the budget for Status of Women Canada amounts to a mere 0.03% of direct federal program spending (McInturff, 2014). The Royal Commission on the Status of Women took place nearly 45 years ago and another wide-sweeping, national look at women’s lives in Canada is again required to ensure equality and the full participation of women in the 21st century. Proper attention to women’s issues and gender equality is a matter of fairness. Non-discrimination is a Charter-guaranteed right for women in Canada. Cet artticle examine et resume de facon critique les realites sur l’inegalite entre les genres sous le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper. Le bien-etre economique et social des femmes s’est affaibli depuis l’entree au pouvoir de Stephen Harper en 2006, ce qui a eu comme resultat d’augmenter l’inegalite entre les genres au Canada. Cet article discute brievement des tendances nationales en ce qui a trait a la disparite salariale, aux conditions precaires d’emploi, a la separation des revenus, et aux infrastructures sociales telles la garde des enfants, et la prestation universelle pour la garde des enfants (PUGE), et finalement, la violence envers les femmes. De plus, cet article propose qu’avec la quasi-disparition du mandat de la condition feminine Canada, les femmes sont en train d’etre supprimees de l’histoire nationale. Presentement, le budget annuel de la condition feminine Canada est a peine 0.03% des depenses directes federales de programmes sociaux (McInturff, 2014). La commission royale sur le statut des femmes a pris place il y a plus de 45 ans, et il semblerait qu’un autre regard national et general sur la vie des femmes canadiennes est de nouveau de mise afin de garantir la participation totale des femmes au 21ieme siecle. Les problematiques des femmes et de l’egalite entre les genres sont des questions d’equite, et la non-discrimination est un droit garanti par la charte des droits humains au Canada. Mots-Clefs: Inegalites entre les genres; violence envers les femmes; disparite salariale; garde des enfants
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".