Thriving Through It

Mental Health

People are struggling with fear and uncertainty about their own health and their loved ones’ health, concerns about employment and finances, and the social isolation that comes from public health measures such as quarantining and physical distancing."

 - Canadian Association for Mental Health.

Community Spread

Fifty-six percent of Black respondents said their job, or the job of someone they knew, had been affected, compared with the national average of 46 percent. 

- African Canadian Civic Engagement Council

Gender Analysis

Care work and other women-majority occupations and industries are essential to containing the pandemic, reducing its impacts, and ensuring that essential services continue to function. These include direct care services such as childcare, long-term care, and gender-based violence services, as well as cashiering and cleaning jobs. This is a global phenomenon: in 104 countries, women are at the frontline of pandemic care, comprising 70% of health and social care workers and earning 11% less than men.

- UN WOMEN

Intersectional Gender Analysis 

Only 21% of women workers in Canada are racialized women, yet they make up roughly 30% of home support workers, housekeepers, kitchen workers, and light-duty cleaners.10 This is also true for Indigenous women who make up 4% of women workers and are over-represented in several low-wage services occupations.

- Canadian Women's Foundation