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Decent Work for Women Working in Nonprofits

We can’t build a decent work movement without women

80% of the nonprofit sector labour force across Ontario and Canada consists of women workers, especially Black, immigrant, and Indigenous women, women with disabilities, and women from the LGBTQ community, who experience unequal outcomes.

For this reason, ONN applies a gender-based intersectional (GBA+) lens to its decent work movement. The GBA+ lens illuminates supports women workers particularly need in their workplaces. 

Women’s Voices

Women's Voices
Literature review

Implement

Guide to Compensation Practices

Advocate

Child Care
Building Gender Equality in the Pandemic Recovery
Pay Equity
Maternity and Parental Employment Insurance Benefits
Pay Transparency

Amplify

Decent Work Allies Communications Toolkit
Gender Allies Communications Toolkit

Phase 1: Research & Solutions

Phase 2: Future of Work, Top-up Fund, national movement building

  • Future of Work for nonprofits and charities through nonprofit, gender, and intersectional lenses
  • Creating a financial investment fund for maternity and parental leave benefit top-ups
  • Building a national decent work for women movement 
  • Applying gender and intersectional lenses to all policies impacting the nonprofit sector’s people, financing, and regulations

For more information please contact: Pamela Uppal, Policy Advisor, pamela@theonn.ca, 416-846-3189

Phase one from 2017-2020 was funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada. Aspects of phase two are funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada and Community Foundations Canada.