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Connecting with the climate risks that could be faced by future generations could influence support for better policies now. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock

Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations more than men – new study

Attitudes towards climate policies partly depend on a consideration of future, as yet unborn, descendants. Women tended to show more ability to think about how future generations could benefit.
Palestinian women react after their home was hit by an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. In Gaza and elsewhere, an effective feminist foreign aid policy needs political action to address root causes of poverty, violence and sexual and reproductive harm. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Canada’s inaction in Gaza marks a failure of its feminist foreign policy

Canada’s tepid response to the war in Gaza and the severe harm caused to Palestinian women casts doubt on the sincerity of the government’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.
Immigrant women disproportionately work caring for children, elderly adults and people living with disabilities. At the same time, immigrant care workers earn low incomes and experience precarious employment. (Shutterstock)

Immigrant women suffer financially for taking maternity leave: 4 ways Canada can improve

Research shows a classed and racialized divide among women caring for their children in Canada today. It’s a divide that is having a negative financial impact on immigrant women doing this work.
This year, the Canadian government’s theme for International Women’s Day is ‘Every Woman Counts.’ But how does this message translate into action? (Shutterstock)

Is International Women’s Day a catalyst for change or just a symbolic gesture?

Days of international observance recognize challenges facing marginalized groups or society as a whole, draw attention to them and create unity and mobilization around those problems.

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