{"id":67715,"date":"2020-08-27T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=67715"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:04","slug":"savage-and-ross-how-women-are-changing-the-face-of-canadas-union-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/08\/savage-and-ross-how-women-are-changing-the-face-of-canadas-union-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVAGE and ROSS: How women are changing the face of Canada\u2019s union leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Savage, Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, and Stephanie Ross, Associate Professor and Director of the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-women-are-changing-the-face-of-canadas-union-leadership-143986?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2027%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2027%202020+CID_0ffb6f8e3f5265e8db2410728603db32&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20women%20are%20changing%20the%20face%20of%20Canadas%20union%20leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the need for more women to be in senior leadership roles within the organized labour movement.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs Labour Day approaches, close your eyes and picture the typical union member in Canada. If you conjured an image of a man wearing a hard hat or working in a factory, you missed the mark.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The typical union member in Canada is actually a woman who works in the public sector. She may be a teacher, a nurse, an office clerk at city hall or a mail carrier. All of these jobs are more likely to be unionized than those in the majority-male manufacturing, warehousing or construction sectors. In fact, Statistics Canada\u2019s\u00a0Labour Force Survey data\u00a0reveals that, as of 2019, women made up 53.1 per cent of union members. That\u2019s up from 45.8 per cent in 1998 and\u00a029 per cent in 1978.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s no question that\u00a0women benefit from unionization. Being unionized boosts women\u2019s wages more than it does men\u2019s, when both are compared to their non-union counterparts.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unionized women also experience a much smaller gender pay gap when compared to unionized men. In other words, unions help women overcome the effects of gender discrimination in the workplace. This \u201cunion advantage\u201d is even greater for women who are affected by other forms of systemic discrimination.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite becoming numerically dominant within unions, women are still under-represented in positions of union leadership. The number of women leading national unions in Canada today can be counted on one hand. And women currently lead only three of the country\u2019s provincial and territorial federations of labour.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-women-are-changing-the-face-of-canadas-union-leadership-143986?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2027%202020&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2027%202020+CID_0ffb6f8e3f5265e8db2410728603db32&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=How%20women%20are%20changing%20the%20face%20of%20Canadas%20union%20leadership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Savage, Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University, and Stephanie Ross, Associate Professor and Director of the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University, had a piece recently published in The Conversation about the need for more women to be in senior leadership roles within the organized labour movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[110,522,4358,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67716,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67715\/revisions\/67716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}