The Canadian Human Rights Act and Women’s Equality
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/07/06
The equality of women with men becomes an important subject matter not only for the men who want a more justice and fair world but also the outcomes of the upcoming generations. The Canadian Human Rights Act is an important part of a framework for the provision of the further equality of women with men.
From 1977, the Canadian Human Rights Act speaks to the right of equality for all persons and peoples within Canada. The equality for the sexes in this instance for both sexes. This extends into the right of equal opportunity. If a position exists within the society, then all Canadians – and so women and men – deserve equal access to the job.
Fair treatment is enshrined within the act as well. If someone had the equal chance to apply for the position, earned the station, then when on the job the individual deserves the fair treatment by employers and employees in comparison to others or coworkers and not in contrast. An important point of contact in terms of the individual human rights of people.
The equality as a right, the equally provided-for opportunities, and then the fairness in the treatment of the individuals, all salient for the improvement of the individual lives of workers. When some individuals and public intellectuals decry other Canadians arguing for their fundamental human rights, they simply work against fundamental bases for equal within the society.
Through arguing against human rights, whether formal arguments or emotional appeals with crying, individual persons deserve the right to equal access to the society and treatment within it. This seems particularly true of women who historically have had an extraordinarily difficult time in comparison to men in Canadian society.
The next section for the act comes in the form of an environment free of discrimination based on one’s own sex. Of course, sexual orientation and gender identity remain different but associated with the biological sex or the sex one is born with regarding, for example, genetics. It makes sense to not be discriminated against based on one’s sex.
It may seem obvious to others reading The Good Men Project, too. However, with long and hard experience, the clear line for one’s own discrimination based on sex can be present and, in the minds of a not-so-small minority, justified. It becomes a basis for a prejudice within the socio-cultural matrix of the nation, which the act and other similar documents like it form the basis for the protection of vulnerable individuals.
Those vulnerable individuals come from groups and communities and categorization accepted within the culture. Those with histories with influence into the present. The main basis for their protections as classifications but, at the end of the day, as individual persons come from the Canadian Human Rights Act and other documents covered in previous articles.
Those documents do not discriminate. They distinguish and make distinct the lines between categories for the subsequent strengthening of the trend towards equality in actuality. The documents amount to the car. We merely need to drive the car and bring as many people along as possible. The subtle form of this comes from a fair and equal workplace and life without discrimination based, in this narrowing of the broad topic, on one’s sex.
The act also speaks to the “sexual orientation, marital status and family status” of the individual in question. Whether on is employed by an organization or company, or receiving services from it, they deserve the equality, the access, the fairness of treatment, and the lack of discrimination based on sex within the confines of most domains or all areas within the country including the federal government, First Nations governments, and the “private companies that are regulated by the federal government like banks, trucking companies, broadcasters and telecommunications companies.”
These build into other topics include the Canadian Human Rights Commission utilized for the investigation and settlement of complaints oriented around those of discrimination. If a Jamaican-Canadian or a Dutch-Canadian undergoes discrimination based on their being of a particular national heritage within the Canadian context and the work environment, these human rights commissions provide the basis for recourse for the individuals who may need legal assistance and protections.
The documents are the fundamental help with this as well. Similar to the cases of the nationality and ethnic heritage, we can discover the same reasoning or ratiocination in the protection of one’s livelihood and equality of rights – and so status within the society, which, within environment of historical precedents and less than a century of women having equal legal status as voting person’s in the Canadian democratic system, provides the protections for women – as this does for Jamaican-Canadians or Dutch-Canadians who may undergo similar difficulties in their lives regarding equal in work, the privileges instantiated as rights, the fair treatment on the job, and the non-discrimination based on sex/national-ethnic heritage.
For further information and to be explored in further documents and articles in the coming days and weeks and months, we will look into more acts, tribunals, and conventions, and declarations within the national and international rights scenes in order to implement the protections of the rights and privileges – and so dignity and respect as persons and peoples – necessary for the fair and just future all people of conscience, including myself and I assume you, too (dear reader).
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