{"id":55380,"date":"2021-08-05T01:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T05:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=55380"},"modified":"2021-08-05T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:01:10","slug":"impacts-of-covid-19-on-women-in-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/impacts-of-covid-19-on-women-in-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacts of COVID-19 on women in the workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Host: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thekristahenry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Krista Henry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent numbers released from Statistics Canada indicated that 1.5 million women in Canada lost their jobs during the first two months of the pandemic. This led to unemployment rates as high as 20 per cent among women, compared to 13 per cent among their male counterparts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The YWCA Canada has since developed a Feminist Recovery Plan which emphasizes that women's rights and gender equity could see the biggest rollback if left unchecked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosalind Gunn, director of marketing and communications of the YWCA Cambridge, and Jennifer Gordon, director of advocacy at YW Kitchener-Waterloo, discuss the impacts of the global pandemic their organizations have seen on women in the workplace in the Waterloo region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">--<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This program is a part of the \u201cLocal Journalism Initiative\u201d grant program and is funded by the<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Radio Fund of Canada, the Government of Canada, and the CKMS Newsroom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check out the archived versions of this program and other episodes on radiowaterloo.ca\/news., and other stories commissioned under the Local Journalism Initiative at canada-info.ca.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can follow us on twitter @RadioWaterloo. If you want to get in touch with comments, or ideas about stories to cover, email us at news@radiowaterloo.ca.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: Krista Henry Recent numbers released from Statistics Canada indicated that 1.5 million women in Canada lost their jobs during the first two months of the pandemic. This led to unemployment rates as high as 20 per cent among women, compared to 13 per cent among their male counterparts.\u00a0 The YWCA Canada has since developed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,218,225],"tags":[536,3381,8577,2655,4140,1930,8576],"radio":[253],"origine":[267,271,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55380"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=55380"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=55380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}