Why Put a Price on Suffering?: Costing Inequality

Researchers and civil society organizations have engaged in significant efforts to
track public spending on gender equality measures, to analyze the differential
impact of economic policies on women and men, and to create financial proxies for
the impact of inequality on women’s well-being. This talk will examine the merits
and faults of using economic indicators to promote gender equality in Canada. It
will examine the positive impact of engaging in economic debates—the potential to
demonstrate quantitatively the extent of inequality in Canada, and to move
decision-makers to put increased resources into narrowing the gender gap.

Kate McInturff is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives. Kate is an ongoing contributor to the Alternative Federal Budget
and leads CCPA’s initiative on gender equality and public policy: Making
Women Count. Kate is the past Executive Director of FAFIA and currently sits
on the Coordinating Committee of SocialWatch. Kate received her doctoral
degree from the University of British Columbia in 2000