This toolkit refers to the health of people who experience physical and hormonal changes associated with female reproduction. In this toolkit we’ll refer to these people as women. However, we recognize female reproduction and other aspects of women’s health also affect non-binary, transgender or two-spirited people.
Working women need support
Women are essential to the Canadian economy, making up 48% of the workforce.1 They take on many critical, front-line professions, such as health care and education. They also play key roles in many other sectors, such as construction, policing, and oil and gas.
Increasing supports for women’s health can help employers retain valuable talent, increase workplace productivity and decrease costs related to absences and leaves.
We built this toolkit to highlight some of the important opportunities for employers to better support women’s health in their workplaces.
1 Statistics Canada, Labour Force characteristics, 2022