Employment

Barriers to Training Access, a new study from Statistics Canada, finds that women in low wage work, non-unionized positions and/or those who are less educated are less likely than their male peers to receive on-the-job training from employers. However, women with these characteristics are also twice as likely to accept training opportunities offered by their employers than their male peers.

Lisa MacLeod is a young female politician who commutes to her job at Queen's Park from Ottawa and leaves her husband and four-year old daughter at home. Mr. Justice Douglas Cunningham of Ontario Supreme Court said this is a big distraction for the 34 year old woman and as a result he felt he could not accept her evidence.

Female supervisors are significantly more likely to be sexually harassed at work than women who do not oversee others because male co-workers target them as a way to equalize power in the office, say the authors of a new study on gender and workplace control.

In a recent report from the Bank of Canada, it was found that Canadian businesses are more optimistic about their hiring prospects over the next year, although some of that confidence is largely eluding companies in Ontario.

A study finds that it is more stressful for women to work for a woman than a man. Women who work for fmale bosses develop more mental and physical health problems than those who work for a man, according to the study.