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What is intersectionality?

Feminism and Intersectionality

Intersectionality explains how different types of identities come together to create new systems of discrimination/oppressions. Femenist Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw coined this term.

- Feminism has a dark past, an intersectional approach is critical to grow beyond that.

- It was created to understand how different identities mean different discriminations/oppressions.

- Feminism is not just about gender, it is about all marginalized groups.

Poverty in Canada

Social Inequality

Canada's poverty rate is higher than most developed countries - we rank 23rd out of 34 OECD countries.

Characterized by the unequal opportunities and rewards for different social position or statuses within a group or society.

Sociological Inequalities and Poverty in Canada : Feminist Perspective

Canada's poverty rate VS OECD average rate

11%

11.9%

There are several important dimensions within social inequality:

1.5 million women in Canada live on low income

  • Race
  • income
  • wealth
  • occupation
  • power
  • schooling
  • ancestry
  • ethnicity

Why should we focus on women in poverty ?

Helping poor women helps poor children

80% of lone-parent families are headed by women.

Almost 70% of part-time workers are women and 60% of minimum wage earners are female.

Women who interrupt their careers for at least three years due to maternity leave earn about 30% less than women with no children.

  • First nation women (living off reserve) - 37%
  • Visible minority women - 28%
  • Métis and Inuit women - 23%
  • Women with disabilities - 33%
  • Immigrant women - 20%
  • Single mothers - 21%
  • Children in female lone-parent families - 23% (Compared to 6% of children in two-parent families.)
  • Single senior women - 16%

How to help women move out of poverty?

"Ain't I A Woman"

The Canadian Women's Foundation

  • Sharing the most promising practices for moving women out of poverty.
  • Community programs to increase their income
  • Launch a small business
  • Learn a skilled trade
  • Work in a job placement
  • Helps identify their strenghts and skills.

- Sojourner Truth

The Invisible Knapsack

Peggy MacIntosh

"Thinking through unacknowledged male privilege as a phenomenon, I realized that, since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there are most likely a phenomenon of white privilege that was similarly denied and protected. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see on of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage."

Canada is a rich country - So why is poverty a problem?

Why are so many women in Canada poor?

"I can choose public accommodation without fearing that people of my race cannot get in or will be mistreated in the places I have chosen."

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