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Policy Research Fact Sheets on Published Reports

The Policy Research Fund at Status of Women Canada supports independent, policy research on gender equality issues. The Policy Research Fund supports research that identifies policy gaps, trends and emerging issues, and provides policy options and concrete recommendations for alternative solutions.

This updated kit contains fact sheets on the reports published through the Policy Research Fund since 1998 and incorporates fact sheets found in the previous edition of the kit. The fact sheets are organized by theme, one for each call for proposals. The themes are:

• Custody and Access
• Women and the Canadian Human Rights Act: A collection of policy research reports
• The Canada Health and Social Transfer and its Impact on Women
• Women's Access to Justice
• The Changing Role of the State, Women's Paid and Unpaid Work, and Women's Vulnerability to Poverty
• Factoring Diversity into Policy Analysis and Development: New Tools, Frameworks, Methods and Applications
• Integration of Diversity into Policy Research, Development and Analysis
• Women and the Canadian Tax System
• Reducing Women's Poverty: Policy Options, Directions and Frameworks
• The Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation: Implications of Policy Changes for Women in Lesbian Relationships
• Trafficking in Women: The Canadian Dimension
• First Nations Women, Governance and the Indian Act
• Young Women at Risk

This kit also contains fact sheets on the following reference papers.

• Aboriginal Women in Canada: Strategic Research Directions for Policy Development
• Gender Equality Indicators: Public Concerns and Public Policies
• Women and the Economy: Long-Term Policy Research Issues
• The 1996 Census Unpaid Work Evaluation Study
• Gendering Immigration/ Integration: Policy Research Workshop Proceedings and a Selective Review of Policy Research Literature 1987-1996
• Finding Data on Women: A Guide to Major Sources at Statistics Canada
• Statistics Canada Data Sources on Immigrant Women

Research is continuing on the following themes:

• Where Have all the Women Gone: Shifts in Policy Discourses
• Women's Access to Sustained Employment with Adequate Benefits: Public Policy Solutions
• Trade Agreements and Women

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As reports are published they are made available for downloading on our web site. You will be receiving fact sheets on newly published reports in annual updates to this kit.

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