From The Industry: Canadian women are not OK this International Women's Day

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Canada’s ranking in the Index reflects that women across our country feel they are faring worse on several key metrics of health and wellbeing - via healthing_ca healthing InternationalWomensDay

We need to took at the challenges in the lives of women and girls in Canada, and how all of us — men included — can help to make a change.When it comes to mental health, more than a third of Canadian women reported feeling sad for most of the previous day. GETTY. It’s supposed to be a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Hologic, a leading provider of women’s health screening and diagnostics, has partnered with the Gallup World Poll to, a survey that represents the feelings and actions of approximately 2.5 billion women and girls globally. Its findings are based on the experiences of more than 60,000 women and girls, captured in more than 140 languages.When it comes to women’s health in Canada, we’re still not doing nearly enough.

When it comes to mental health, more than a third of Canadian women reported feeling sad for most of the previous day. It would be easy to say this is all just a result of the pandemic — that, of course, women were struggling more with mental health in 2020. However, in this same time period, Canada ranked at 43, lower than Australia at 9, the United Kingdom at 12, and the United States at 26 — countries that were all experiencing the pandemic in much the same way.

 

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