Series - Editorial Fellowship: Women's Economic Resilience

“You have to fight the big economic structures”: Maude Barlow on 50 years of activism and how civil society can advance women’s economic resilience

Author Sherlyn Assam
“The point of feminism [is] not to get half of what was, but to profoundly change the dynamics of the economy of our culture and our democracy.”

Why It Matters

The pandemic exposed deep inequity in Canada and around the world. Civil society must challenge the government power structures and fundamental economic institutions that create barriers to women’s economic independence for everyone to recover from the pandemic.

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