“Statistics”
Vancouver Rape Relief
Very little funding is given to anti-violence organizations to accrue and analyse our statistics about violence against women. This results in minimal statistical information coming from feminist non-governmental agencies and often means finding recent statistical data is difficult. We know from our ongoing work that the following statistics still hold.
Poverty is still very much a women’s issue. While there have been improvements in the past decade or so, women are still more likely than men to be living with a low income. But statistics on low income do not tell the full story of women’s poverty.
Women are also affected by poverty in different ways, depending upon their age, race, ethnicity, linguistic background, ability, sexual orientation, citizenship, etc. Statistics provide some important indications of women’s poverty in Canada, but experiences of poverty are much more complex than the picture created by numbers alone.