The FHCQ took advantage of the 2022 annual meeting to present the website of the "Women's Presence, Women's Power" project, conducted from 2017 to 2020 in the Montreal region.

The project, carried out with the support of Status of Women Canada, which has since become the department Women and Gender Equality Canada, allowed for the identification of specific problems faced by residents of housing cooperatives.

It was also an opportunity to mobilize and equip cooperators in order to enable them to define objectives, priorities and means of action that would allow them to take their place within the cooperatives.

The results of the work carried out during these three years, the tools that were developed as well as references of organizations to consult are now presented on the website www.presencedesfemmes.coop.

The English version of the site will be online by mid-June.

Consult the website (FR)

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Three areas of intervention

In addition to governance issues, the project highlighted violence and work-family-involvement issues as the main obstacles to the full participation of housing co-op residents. The site provides access to all the tools developed in the framework of the project.

Governance

Egalitarian and inclusive policies and regulations that promote women's participation

Reconciliation

Practical ways for mothers and all parents to reconcile their family and professional responsibilities with their involvement in co-ops

Violence

Principles to be applied to prevent and eliminate violence against women in housing co-ops

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CHA+

The platform also promotes GBA+, an inclusive gender-based analysis approach that was leveraged in the project.

GBA+ aims to take into account different realities about various sets of people: women, men, people of various gender identities when developing an initiative.

The "+" means that the analysis is not limited to sex or gender, but to a multitude of forms of exclusion that can occur simultaneously: age, religion, disability, ethnicity, etc.

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Is your co-op egalitarian? True or false

The site offers a quiz to evaluate whether your co-op has egalitarian practices. The main purpose of this non-scientific quiz is to help you discover your co-op's strengths and challenges on the road to gender equality and inclusion.

By answering the questions, you can also learn about the practices and policies to adopt and the changes to implement so that your co-op gradually becomes a better place for everyone.

Take the test

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Statement of Principles to Eliminate and Prevent Violence Against Women in Housing Co-operatives

The Statement of Principles, adopted by the FHCQ in 2018, remains relevant today. The www.presencedesfemmes.coop website is intended to be a megaphone to encourage the broadest adherence in the movement to the Declaration's goal: to make housing co-ops truly safe living environments for all, free from harassment, intimidation, sexual and domestic violence.