Despite of the existence of political discourse that purports the fact that Canadians experience much greater equality of opportunity due to the enshrinement of the Charter within the constitution, one's likelihood of experiencing this equality still largely depends on one's race, class, and gender. This is not say that the legislation that ensures equality does not exist, but rather that existing legislation and public policy continues to be structured and applied in ways that deprive some groups of the equality of opportunity experienced by other groups. Perhaps the most prominent members of the former (deprived) group are women. Thus, this paper will argue that inspite of the existence of legislation which ensures equality of opportunity under the Charter, the legislation itself seems to be primed by patriarchal values that work to reflect and reproduce certain assumptions about gender roles which pushes Canada away from gender egalitarianism.
It is true that women have made great progress in their fights against sexist and/or discriminatory forms of institutionalized patriarchy; however, the legislation and policies that exist today either completely fail to rid women of expectations regarding gender roles or do not go far enough in terms of protecting women against the patriarchal paradigm that largely guards the labour force. It is also true that some of the issues facing women today (whether they are cultural, economic, and/or political) are mostly primed by the enshrinement of patriarchy within the mind set of Canadian society; however, this does not mean that public policy and legislation cannot escape patriarchy. In other words, patriarchal values are diffused through some policies and this diffusion both reflects and ...
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...wages (relative to other employees who hold the same position) (Philip at l., 2001).
It is also important to note that such a gender based model of child care may be tied back to patriarchal assumptions that created the aforementioned maternity leave policies in Canada; they are two faces to the same coin. Moreover, like the current maternity leave laws, the laws (or lack thereof) on national/communal child care in Canada work to reproduce the inequality of female and male wage gaps due to the aforementioned severed ties women have to face with the labour force. Furthermore, such laws may lead women to the more flexible working hours associated with non-standard employment (a point that will be discussed in greater details in upcoming sections of the paper) so as to allow them to balance the responsibilities of being in the labour force and taking care of children.
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