Webinar: An intersectional approach to pay equity and economic justice
When: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Who:
- Stephanie Hodgson is a sole practitioner at Hodgson Law on Vancouver Island with over a decade of experience in child protection and family law. Stephanie is passionate about access to justice and legal education in plain language.
- Rebecca McConchie is a criminal lawyer at McConchie Criminal Law based out of Vancouver. Rebecca represents clients at trial and on appeal in a wide variety of criminal and quasi-criminal matters.
Who:
- Viveca Ellis from the Center for Family Equity;
- Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and policy analyst;
- Jammy Loch, researcher with LEAF National;
- Kassandra Cordero from the BC Federation of Labour;
- Evelyn Huntjens from DAWN, Disabled Women’s Network of Canada and Indigenous Disability Canada
What:
Equal Pay Day 2025 was on April 16th. This day draws attention to the entrenched systemic inequity in pay earned by men vs women by symbolizing how far into the current year a woman must work to earn what a man earns in the previous year on average. That works out to working 106 more days to earn the same pay as men based on 2023 figures.
This form of inequality is known as the “pay gap” and it is much worse for women and gender-diverse people who are Indigenous, racialized, migrants, disabled, older or are caregivers. Pay inequality has serious consequences for economic justice and well-being for racialized and gendered people.