BPW International resolves that all Affiliates urge their governments to:
a. establish legislation to prevent gender pay discrimination with an intersectional lens;
b. improve reporting on the gender pay gap with an intersectional lens; and
c. collaborate with private companies to develop meaningful and measurable gender pay gap metrics with an intersectional lens, which are publicly reported.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women recognizes the Government of Canada, specifically the Minister for Employment, Workforce Development and Labour; Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth and Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities for the enactment of the Pay Equity Act (2018). However, The Act establishes a proactive pay equity regime for federally regulated workplaces with 10 or more employees but it is not enforced in other private sector or provincial/territorial workplaces nor does it include analysis with an intersectional lens.
BPW Canada has sponsored resolutions on Pay Equity for decades, the most recent in 2016 “Declaration of a National Equal Pay Day” and 2009 “Pay Equity for Women in the Public Sector”.