Chart prepared by C.L'Hirondelle for the Women's Economic Justice Project 03/03/06
from Revenue Canada data
Victoria BC, Canada -- Email: swag@pacificcoast.net
Project funded by Status of Women Canada BC/Yukon Region

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If you use this chart in your work, please remember to include the source information at the bottom of the chart. This information had to be purchased ($90.40 + tax) from Revenue Canada.

There is free information on the Revenue Canada website showing how many tax filers in income classes from $0 to 250,000 but it does not say how many men and how many women in each income category. That information must be purchased from them as a special request.

Women & Poverty Facts

See also the Women and Income In Canada Chart with Revenue Canada 2004 Data

* One in five Canadian women lives in poverty (2.8 million women). Stats Canada, 2000

* 56% of lone parent families headed by women are poor, compared with 24% of those headed by men. Stats Canada, 2000

* 49% of single, widowed and divorced women over 65 are poor. Stats Canada, 2000

* 23.9% of women age 65 and older were poor vs. 12.4% of men over 65. Stats Canada

* Women and youth account for 83% of Canada's minimum wage workers. Stats Canada, 1998

* 70% of people living in abject poverty in the world are women.   UN Development Programme 1999

* Rural women constitute the majority of the 1.5 billion people who live in absolute poverty... women own only around 1 percent of all land. Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2002

* In the past decade the number of women living in poverty has increased disproportionately to the number of men, particularly in the developing countries.   The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women

* On a global scale, women produce more than half of all the food that is grown. In sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, they produce up to 80% of basic foodstuffs. In Asia, they provide from 50 to 90% of the labour for rice cultivation.   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2001

* Women, on average around the world, work up to two hours longer than men each day. The World's Women, 1995, a UN publication

* Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours, produce half of the world's food, but earn only 10 percent of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. Attributed to three sources: Estimates from World Development Indicators, Barber B. Conable, Jr., US Congressman and L.Leghorn and K. Parker in Sexual Economics and the World of Women

Learn more on the Women Facts page