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Stating that “women have been hit the hardest by COVID,” the federal government unveiled today what it calls the “Feminist Response and Recovery Fund.”
On Thursday, Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, launched a new call for proposals through Women and Gender Equality Canada’s Women’s Program. The call, entitled “Feminist Response and Recovery Fund,” will provide $100 million for projects helping those in greatest need.
The fund “will support local, regional, and national efforts to end violence against women and girls, improve women’s economic security and to increase the participation of women and girls in decision making roles,” said Monsef. ” Women have been hardest hit by COVID. They continue to take on the majority of the work on the front lines of the pandemic. The shecession is real and unless Canadian women are working, safe, with their families cared for, we will not fully reco