9:15 - 11:50 C Block Social and Environmental Sciences
12:30 - 3:05 B Block Legal Studies
Social and Environmental Sciences -
Today, we lose you for the first part of the morning. Sigh.... You will be working with the careers and work experience office today to discuss stuff other than Environmental and Social Science. I guess it will be important or they wouldn't have asked to take you away from us today. Don't worry, it'll be fine and at about 10:30 you'll be with Benton to work on stuff for tomorrow's field study... until then I'll just hang out here and I don't know look at a globe I guess. Sigh...
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| This is me missing you today...I am just a sad puppy |
For the rest of the class, with Benton, you'll be back in the lab building plankton nets using nylons, tape, stapler, water bottle and cord. (samples to be taken at Comox Harbour tomorrow)
Legal Studies - Today we'll review the difference between prejudice and discrimination. We'll look at discrimination in Canada focusing on the Persons case and women's issues of injustice connected employment and pay equity, sexual harassment, and discrimination against pregnant women. On a global scale consider this:
From the UN HDI GII...
"Gender inequality remains a major barrier to human development. Girls and women have made major strides since 1990, but they have not yet gained gender equity. The disadvantages facing women and girls are a major source of inequality. All too often, women and girls are discriminated against in health, education, political representation, labour market, etc. with negative consequences for development of their capabilities and their freedom of choice".
UNICEF USA: Towards Gender Equality from UNICEF USA on Vimeo.
The GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development:
(from the OHRC) While sexual harassment occurs across different occupations and industry sectors, research suggests that it is more common in certain types of employment. For example, sexual harassment complaints are high in traditionally male-dominated work environments, such as the military, policing, firefighting, mining and construction work. So we'll watch the CBC documentary "The Fire Within" to see just one example of workplace harassment that women must face.
I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
To help check out, Supreme Court orders female firefighter rehired
The GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development:
- Reproductive health; measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates;
- Empowerment; measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education and
- Economic status; expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older.
Better educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers. All these factors combined can help lift households, communities, and nations out of poverty. According to UNESCO estimates, 130 million girls between the age of 6 and 17 are out of school and 15 million girls of primary-school age—half of them in sub-Saharan Africa— will never enter a classroom. Poverty remains the most important factor for determining whether a girl can access an education. Studies consistently reinforce that girls who face multiple disadvantages — such as low family income, living in remote or underserved locations, disability or belonging to a minority ethno-linguistic group — are farthest behind in terms of access to and completion of education.
(from the OSSTF) In 2016, a report conducted by Statistics Canada showed that one in five Canadian women had been harassed at work in the past year, compared with one in eight Canadian men. The women who were most vulnerable to this type of abuse were young, single or unmarried. Indigenous women and those persons who identify as LGTBQ+2 were also disproportionately targeted by harassment.
I'll have you work on the following questions:
1. What are some of the current barriers to equality facing women?
2. What is pay equity?
3. How are different jobs compared under pay equity?
4. What is employment equity?
5. What groups are protected under employment equity laws?
To help check out, Supreme Court orders female firefighter rehired
From the Canadian Human Rights Reporter:
The Supreme Court of Canada held that the Government of British Columbia's aerobic standard used to test the fitness of forest firefighters discriminated on the basis of sex, and further that the Government failed to show that the discriminatory standard is justified as a bona fide occupational requirement ("BFOR").
Canadian Labour Relations: Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Human Rights in British Columbia: Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment
Most B.C. women have experienced gender discrimination: Poll
HUMAN RIGHTS CODE [RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 210
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