International Women’s Day has long been a day to celebrate, reflect, and work to change the inequality experienced by women in Canada and around the world. Although the United Nations recognized March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1975, the day has been celebrated for over 100 years. Unions have a played a key role in this celebration and in resistance to gender bias and discrimination. In 2021, International Women’s Day takes on increased significance. The pandemic has spotlighted the extent to which women bear the world on their shoulders. It has had immensely disproportionate impacts on women, and especially on women who experience the world with intersecting identities. Women have suffered increased loss of economic opportunities, increased intimate partner violence and increased unpaid care work during this pandemic. And for women who are racialized, members of the LGBTQ2+ community, have disabilities, or experience other forms of oppression the impacts … Read more…