Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes au travail (CIAFT) du Québec inc.

Published purpose

This 29-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this goal, the Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès de femmes au travail (CIAFT) du Québec inc. plans to: identify the issues driving systemic discrimination against women in employment and conduct focus groups and field investigations to identify issues, needs and problems related to working conditions in traditionally female trades; engage identified partners to create a platform of demands, implement action plans aimed at systemic and specific changes in each employment sector and conduct representation activity with decision makers to initiate systemic changes; develop and implement an awareness campaign and implement a media and press relations strategy to publicize the platform of demands and actions in targeted employment sectors at the provincial level. By the end of the project, the organization will have helped eliminate systemic barriers by promoting inclusive policies and practices, by expanding networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change and by changing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes in support of women’s equality. Through these activities, the project Réduire la discrimination systémique envers les femmes par la valorisation des métiers majoritairement féminins (reducing systemic discrimination against women by enhancing the value of predominantly female trades) will achieve the following outcomes: target audiences will have access to programs, resources and supports to respond and recover from the impact of COVID-19 on women’s equality; networks and collaboration to expand the scope, impact and sustainability of efforts to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 on women’s equality will be established; target audiences will use and apply the knowledge gained in their policy and program work to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 on women’s equality; and policies and practices designed to eliminate barriers to responding to and recovering from the impacts of COVID-19 will be inclusive.