The New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity is using federal funding to identify and help remove barriers to pay equity for women in public life.
Executive Director Johanne Perron says they were recently given $238,000 for a project to increase women’s participation in democratic life.
“So this project is meant to help us work with partners to put forward the issue of pay equity and how we can advance it in New Brunswick,” says Perron.
She says the funding comes from Status of Women Canada.
“They had a call for proposals on the topic of amplifying women’s voice for social change, so that’s how we applied and we were chosen among other projects,” says Perron.
A record 88 women were elected to serve in Canada’s 42 Parliament, including Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe MP Ginette Petitpas-Taylor.
That amounts to 26% of all MPs.
