A new survey revealed that 32 per cent of working women say they believe no progress has been made when it comes to gender equality, a feeling especially prevalent among young women, mothers and women of colour.

The building where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire unfolded still stands today. And yet, you could pass by the site of the greatest workplace disaster (until 9/11) without even realizing it. What does it say about our country's value of those kinds of workers — low-wage-earning immigrant women — if we've failed to meaningfully memorialize them?

"People think well, [catcalling or heckling] is harmless it's not hurting anybody. Well, actually, it is," she said. "Because it dehumanizes the person that it's happening to and it sends the message to the offender and all of his buddies that it's okay to sexually objectify women."

"The G7 has typically taken up economic issues, security issues, and environmental issues. … So everything you spoke about, you’re right it fits under that lens, but it’s up to the host of the G7 to decide what one additional topic should be on the list, and Prime Minister Trudeau has chosen gender, and I think he’s chosen it rightly, because gender cuts across all of those issues. … Women are half the world."

Grassroots feminist activists in Ottawa for the 'W7' summit this week are reminding the Liberals that women and girls living in poverty and other difficult conditions around the world -- including in Canada -- know best how their lives could be improved and it is time for the G7 to listen. "We want the G7 to think more broadly, beyond the focus only on women's economic empowerment or women entrepreneurs," said Julie Delahanty, executive director of Oxfam Canada. "Women's economic empowerment is key, but we don't want that agenda to be narrowly defined or for the leaders to neglect other important issues."

Gender neutral language tends to happen in professions and sports where men and women work and play alongside each other, Storoshenko said. It happened in the firefighting profession, he pointed out, and because mixed curling has a long history, the position names of skip, vice, second and lead aren't gender specific.