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For 50 years, the Equal Pay Coalition has worked to eliminate gender-based pay discrimination, and achieve pay equity through legislation, collective bargaining, and social initiatives.
As a network of 30 women’s groups, trade unions, community organizations, and business associations, the Equal Pay Coalition has shaped policies and pushed for improved enforcement of the Pay Equity Act, greater access to affordable childcare and increases to minimum wage.
While these measures have helped close the gap, pay equity remains a pressing and urgent issue in Ontario today. For every dollar that a man makes in Ontario, a woman makes 68 cents. The gap is even greater when one factors in race and ability.
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Women’s equality, both as users of childcare, and as workers within the childcare sector, depends on strengthening our childcare system to close the gender pay gap.