Educate, empower and eliminate the wage gap.
Welcome to Stop The Party. We’re tired of hearing corporate platitudes every International Women’s Day, without any meaningful action to end the gender wage gap that still persists in Canada and around the world. So we’ve gathered tools and educational materials to help women and businesses make real change in the workforce.
You can keep your party. We want equal pay.
Celebrations don’t make up for disparity.
Canadian women make 75 cents for every dollar a man makes*. Over a career, this means women work 10 years with no pay.
Business email style and the wage gap:
Did you know that the way we communicate at the workplace contributes to the gender wage gap?
The language of business is gendered, meaning that masculine language is rewarded, and feminine language is penalized, even when research shows that women are 84% more effective communicators than men.
The real solution?
Taking the best of both worlds to create a genderless business language that is direct, empathetic and invites collaboration.
Want to see how your business email etiquette stacks up?
Articles & Resources
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Are men and women being treated the same in the workplace?
Gendered language in the work place creates a catch 22 for women, who are either “too soft” or “too aggressive” to lead.
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Think again: Men and women share cognitive skills
What’s holding women back in the traditionally “male” STEM career fields isn’t cognitive capability but cultural and societal bias.
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Mastering Assertive and Persuasive Communication for Success
The Importance of Effective Communication for Women in the Workplace.
The Game of Life is rigged.
Want to know what the “Game of Life” would be like if it reflected real-life gender pay disparity? Download the rules and additional playing cards and use this as an educational tool to help older children, tweens and teens understand the reality of the wage gap, so they grow up informed and can advocate for themselves when they enter the workforce.
Start playing The Game of Life: Wage Gap Edition, where men and women experience gender bias, just like in the real world.
Download the new rules and supplementary game cards and see if you can be a winner at the game of life!
Who are we?
“Stop the party” is not affiliated with any company or organization. It is an independent initiative created by a group of women who are employed by businesses in Canada who want to give companies a simple way to make an actionable difference in the wage gap today.
For inquiries, reach out to: hello@stoptheparty.ca
Special thanks to these amazing partners and collaborators:
*Full-year full-time male workers’ average employment income in 2018 was
$74,000 vs $55,600 for women (Source: StatsCan). Over a 40-year career
25% less pay is the equivalent of working 10 years without income.