The Canadian Centre Policy Alternative’s Gender Gap Index was created in 2014 to bring a local lens to the discussion of gender disparities across a range of areas related to basic rights. Modelled on established indicator frameworks such as the Global 6 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Gender Gap Index analyses if men and women in Canada’s 26 largest cities (i.e., with populations over 150,000) have relatively equal access to resources and opportunities fundamental to their well-being.