The Barriers Project: Retention of Women and Gender Minorities in Municipal Elected Offices in BC and Alberta.


Click the link above to go straight to the report.

Requests for interviews, please email Trudi.

We spent a lot of time thinking about the great folks who we’ve worked with to run for office, and the experience once they are elected. It’s not enough to diversify who is at the council tables – we need to fix the experience there so leaders can govern and flourish.

So we set out to do some research with our partners at Climate Caucus and with funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada.

The final report is near. Stay tuned!

A look at how FCS is doing

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