Employment Equity

Undated button by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE/SCEP) in support of employment equity in Ontario.

This subsection contains material on employment equity, including addressing the barriers to paid employment faced by women and structurally marginalized groups, including Indigenous peoples, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and racialized people.

Archival Materials

Buttons
Employment Equity – Canadian Union of Public Employees

  • Visual Artist:

    Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

  • Language:

    English
Undated button by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE/SCEP) in support of employment equity in Ontario.
Employment Equity for a better Ontario – CUPE/SCEP

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Undated Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) calling for equal opportunities for women.
Equal Opportunities (CUPE)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This button highlights the fight to open doors for women to enter non-traditional jobs such as the trades. It was one element of affirmative action campaigns led by union.
Women in Trades

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This button for women in trades features the woman symbol with an upraised fist holding a wrench.
Women in Trades

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
this is a 1983 button promoting women in the trades.
Women in Trades 1983: Pink Collar to Blue Collar

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Language:

    English
"You Don't Need a Prick to Lay a Brick"
You Don’t Need a Prick to Lay a Brick

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Documents
A Women’s Bureau

  • Year created:

    1971

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Affirmative Action

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Affirmative Action Program for the Ontario NDP

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Affirmative Action: Why?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Bargaining for Women in the Nineties

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Canadian Labour (excerpts) – November- December 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
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Canadian Labour Congress Submission on Bill C-62 Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) – Affirmative Action: Putting a Stop to Sex Discrimination

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE/SCFP) – The status of women in CUPE/ la situation de la femme dans le SCFP

  • Year created:

    1971

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
CAW Statement on Affirmative Action

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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CLC Policy Paper on Women and Affirmative Action/CTC- énoncé de politique sur les femmes et l’accès à l’égalité

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Count Me In

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Count Me In: Special Insert (Update) – May 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Different Therefore Unequal: Employment and Women with Disabilities

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Diversity, Solidarity, Employment Equity: A Commitment to Equality

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Elect Carol Phillips for OFL Vice-President 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Irene Harris: OFL Vice President 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Elect Peggy Nash for OFL Vice-President 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Here to Stay: Women in the Work Force

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – To Seize the Good: The History of Women in Unions

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Women and the Canadian Labour Congress

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Reaping the Benefits

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Using Your Union

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equity in Action – A Public Meeting About Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Toronto (1987) Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1992): Letter re: Ontario’s Employment Equity Legislation

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Author(s):

    Akua Benjamin

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Let Us Speak! Steps to Change Language Training – 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Alma Estable, Mechthild Meyer

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
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Making Affirmative Action Work: Canadian Labour Congress 5th Biennial Women’s Conference

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Making Up the Difference: Mandatory Affirmative Action (Forum) – October/November 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE) – Bargaining for Equality

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Susan Attenborough

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Ontario Federation of Labour Affirmative Action Coalition Statement (1985)

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Statement on Women (1975)

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Ontario Pay Equity Law: One Million Denied

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Opportunity For Choice – Affirmative Action for School Boards

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Opportunity For Choice: Status/Affirmative Action Conference Programme

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Affirmative Action Project Update

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Preiss Shulman and Associates

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Pay Equity: What’s the Story?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
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Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) – Affirmative Action in the Public Service: More Talk than Action: Report and Letter

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Bonnie Carroll

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Re-Elect Irene Harris as OFL Vice-President 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Reflections of an Ex-Status of Women Committee Member (Forum) – December 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Mike Miller

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Reports (1989): Women in Banking – The First Year of Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Phebe-Jane Poole

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Reports (1992): Justice Works: Response of NAC to “Working Towards Equality”

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Surviving and Thriving: Kootenay Women in Trades and Technology and Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
The Pattern of Female Employment at De Havilland Aircraft: Brief to the Commission of Inquiry on Equality in Employment

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Wendy Cuthbertson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The Status of Women Within B.C. Federation of Labour Affiliated Unions

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
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Unbreakable Links: International Women’s Day, 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women and Affirmative Action/Les femmes et l’action positive

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Women in Trades and Technology Conference – 1988 Program

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
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Women’s Forum Agenda – Ontario Federation of Labour Convention 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "Moving Mountains" featuring two female miners holding shovels and walking in the snow.
Moving Mountains

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Laura Sky

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    British Columbia
Still from the film "The Glass Ceiling" featuring one of the subjects, a young black woman, working as a receptionist.
The Glass Ceiling

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Sophie Bissonnette

  • Language:

    English and French

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Photos

This is one of two undated photos of NDP women and others at a rally in Toronto about Bill C-36 and ending employment discrimination against women.
Rally on Bill C-36 and Discrimination Against Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario

Posters
sex discrimination exists in the work place

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English