Publications

Labour Force & Economic Issues

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  Employability of Women with Disabilities: Breaching the Disability Wall: A Brief to the to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Consultations on Employability in Canada

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  Employability of Women with Disabilities: Breaching the Disability Wall: A Brief to the to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. Consultations on Employability in Canada

  September 2006

  This brief makes recommendations to foster the employability of women with disabilities, with a view to improving their economic security and ensuring that Canada benefits from their contributions. The brief reviews persuasive evidence for the continued economic and labour market difficulties confronting women with disabilities, and makes recommendations.

• Women with Disabilities

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  April, 2006

  Nova Scotia has the highest proportion of persons living with a disability among all the provinces with one in five women and men over the age of 15 reporting some type of disability or chronic health condition in 2001. As the overall disability rate increases substantially with age, and, as the majority of seniors (especially older seniors) are women, older women are disproportionately affected by disability.

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  Women with Disabilities

• Money Matters (revised edition)

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  May, 2006

  Part 1 of a statistical series on Women in Nova Scotia.

  A report on the economic situation of women in Nova Scotia originally released in 2001 as part of its Women in Nova Scotia series.

  The report brings together a wide variety of statistics on women's earnings and income and shows how factors such as family status and women's continuing responsibility for childcare affects their economic security. The report also provides an overview of the economic situations of diverse groups of women.

• Women and Public Pensions: Working Towards Equitable Policy Change 

  March, 2006
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  Executive Summary

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  An Initiative of the Women's Centres in the Western area of Nova Scotia: Tri-County Women's Centre in Yarmouth, Second Story Women's Centre in Bridgewater, and The Women's Place Resource Centre in Bridgetown. Project funded by the Women's Program, Status of Women Canada

  Note: This publication is an independent research publication, funded by Status of Women Canada. The Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women was one of the supporting groups on the project.

• Women and the Minimum

  Wage in Nova Scotia
  February, 2005
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  A Brief prepared by the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women on gender issues and the minimum wage in Nova Scotia submitted to the Department of Environment and Labour.

• Submission of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women to the Government of Canada's Federal Labour Standards Review

  November, 2005

  Federal leadership is an essential component in the protection of Canada's most vulnerable workers, the majority of whom are women. Federal labour standards should be designed to support the legitimate security of employment for all workers in federally-regulated workplaces.

• Women's Paid and Unpaid Work: Women in Nova Scotia, Part 5 of a Statistical Series

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  June 14, 2004
  Revision Note, March 3, 2005
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  See additional fact sheets from NS Department of Community Services here
  See media release here
  

• Building Transitions to Good Jobs for Low-Income Women

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  See Summary and Recommendations here
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  July 7, 2004