This year marks the eighth anniversary of Canada’s celebration of “gender equality week.” The observance, on the fourth week of each September, was born with the passage of the 2018 Gender Equality Week Act , created in part to “increase awareness of the significant and substantive contributions that Canadian women have made and continue to make to the growth, development, character and identity of Canada.”
On its face, the endeavour appears worthy if not somewhat pandering — for what better way to admit that you don’t see women as your equals than to clap and cheer when they achieve the same things expected of society’s men. (But that is a digression for another day, perhaps.)
Just how have our Liberal overlords decided how that we should spend Gender Equality Week should be spent in