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Media Release
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
"Losing Ground" Documents show the Gordon Campbell Government Has Turned Back the Clock for BC Women
Gordon
Campbell's Liberals have abandoned BC women and their mean-spirited
cuts and policy decision have turned back the clock for women in our
province, said Angela Schira, Secretary-Treasurer of the B.C.
Federation of Labour on the International Women's Day release of a
report entitled "Losing Ground: The Effects of Government Cutback on
Women in British Columbia 2001 - 2005."
From the abolishment of the Ministry of Women's Equality and Human
Rights Commission to the handcuffing of women's advocates, the BC
Liberal government has not only abandoned BC women," said Schira.
"They've turned back the clock and attacked rights that women have
struggled decades to build."
The Report concludes: "On major policy fronts - caring work,
health and safety, welfare, education and training, employment, access
to justice and women's advocacy - Liberals have tossed equality and
justice overboard."
"These report's findings are no surprise," said Debra Critchley,
spokeswoman for the BC Coalition of Women's Centres. "We're on the
front lines and we've seen the number of women who need our assistance
grow and grow as basic supports to women have been cut by the BC
Liberal government."
"Instead of listening to our concerns and calls to restore
services, the Campbell Liberals went even further and eliminated our
funding outright," Critchley said. "I guess they were hoping we would
just disappear, but this Report documents why we're needed now more
than ever."
"Look no further than Gordon Campbell's mean-spirited attack on
the mostly women health care workers in our province," added Schira.
"At every turn women's rights, pay equity, dignity and justice have
been on the Liberal chopping block."
Losing Ground was authored by Gillian Creese, Professor of
Anthropology and Sociology Studies, University of British Columbia
(UBC) and Veronica Strong-Boag, Professor of Educational Studies and
Women, UBC.
Click Here to read the "Losing Ground" Report
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