Meet The Globe
Women's Collective
The Globe Women’s Collective (GWC) brings women across Canada at all career stages together to move the needle toward gender equity in the workplace.
We connect GWC partners with each other and with Globe readers on this key issue, providing access to insights, resources and community through content and events that draw like-minded, ambitious women.
We feature our partner organizations and their employees through our sponsor content, highlighting the progress being made internally to our engaged readers. We then bring these conversations to life in Idea Exchanges where every partner has a seat at the table.
Our work covers the varying barriers to and opportunities for success that affect cis and trans women of different races and abilities, across different industries. And while our initiative seeks to support and uplift women specifically, our coverage also strives to include people of other underrepresented genders when appropriate, who are equally implicated in the fight for gender equity.
Above all, we ensure that we are making the space for women to tell their own stories.
Learn more about why we launched The Globe Women’s collective here.
Hear from our partners
Why Interac joined The Globe Women’s Collective, in their own words:
Interac Corp. (Interac) empowers Canadians to transact digitally with confidence by providing payment and value exchange services. With nearly 300 financial institutions connected to our network, Canadians choose Interac products over 20 million times a day on average to exchange money. Interac champions workplace culture and corporate citizenship based on the principles of responsibility, diversity, and inclusion. We are proud to be one of Canada’s leading and most trusted financial brands.
As a leader in Canada’s digital economy, Interac is committed to building financial confidence in Canada, and fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within our walls and outwards in our communities.
One of our key social impact pillars is helping women advance their financial confidence and break down the barriers they face in advancing in corporate Canada. This work is supported by championing initiatives like HeARTwork: Advancing Women in Leadership Policy Framework, Mindfulness & Money for Women, and supporting organizations like Black Moms Connection and ACCES Employment.
Interac has been recognized as a top employer in Canada with numerous awards, including LinkedIn’s Top Companies in 2024, Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for 2024, and Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures in 2023.
To get the latest news about Interac’s commitment to advancing women, our partnerships, and career opportunities, sign up here.
Why the Ivey Business School joined The Globe Women’s Collective, in their own words:
At Ivey, we are committed to nurturing a community where members feel they belong and contribute to a supportive, inclusive, and accountable culture. As Canada’s leading provider of relevant, innovative, and forward-thinking business education, we utilize novel experiential learning techniques equipping graduates with the skills and capabilities they need to tackle the critical issues and leadership challenges in business today – and tomorrow.
It is currently estimated that women occupy only 40 per cent of management positions in Canada – and only 29 per cent of the C-suite. We believe we can play a significant role in challenging these statistics. But we must lead by example. This is why a cornerstone of our strategic plan, Ivey Next, is to increase the diversity of our faculty, staff, and student body, as well as socioeconomic access to our programs. Across Ivey we continue to make steady improvement as our student programs either exceed, or sit near gender parity.
But we know there is more work to be done.
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, we help students build resilience and courage, gain in-demand expertise, and aspire to be better leaders. A key part of this ambition is amplifying the role and presence of women in business, ensuring they are equipped and empowered to lead and inspire in every sector.
Why Desjardins joined The Globe Women’s Collective, in their own words:
“Desjardins Insurance offers a wide range of flexible life insurance, health insurance and retirement savings products and services. We have been providing innovative services to individuals, groups and businesses for over a century.
We firmly believe that a work environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion is more than an asset – it’s a necessity. As a member of Desjardins Group, the leading cooperative financial group in Canada, we made a commitment to both our employees and our clients on equity, diversity, and inclusion: To welcome each person, accept them for who they are, learn from our differences, celebrate those differences and guarantee everyone the same treatment. That’s why our insurance solutions evolve as the needs of Canadians do. It’s also why we added gender affirmation coverage to our extended health care benefit in 2022.
Desjardins Insurance ensures the financial security of over five million Canadians from offices across the country and is one of the top life insurance companies in Canada. To learn more, click here.
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Why The Pay Equity Office joined The Globe Women’s Collective, in their own words
“The Pay Equity Office promotes gender economic equality by administering Ontario’s Pay Equity Act. The purpose of the Act is to eliminate pay inequity between women and men who perform work that is of comparable value to their organization. Our mission lies in closing the gender wage gap.
In Canada, it’s taken over 20 years to close the gender wage gap by 8%, with 70% of the gap remaining unexplained. Recently, the Pay Equity Office produced award-winning Level the Paying Field video and podcasts series exploring topics related to economics, equity, women, work and wage equity. Through the series, we seek to highlight how data and research can seed meaningful conversations around gender inequality and drive change.
Join the Pay Equity Office in elevating the equity conversation to make the world a more equitable place for women to work, live and thrive and support closing the gender wage gap.”
Read a new research paper from the Pay Equity Office and Dr. Elizabeth Shilton on the Gender Pension Gap in Canada.
