$24-million government plan to improve the lives of Quebec women lacks specifics

While women's groups and unions were relieved to see two government bodies - the Council for the Status of Women and the Secretariat a la condition feminine - maintained, they said the plan announced yesterday smacks of pre-electioneering.

The Charest government has increased the cost of daycare 40 per cent, stalled on the pay-equity dispute, and barred mostly female at-home daycare workers from unionizing, the women said. There had been rumours that the Council and the Secretariat would be abolished or merged.

For women, "equality is a non-negotiable principle, a principle that defines us as much as the language we speak," Theberge said yesterday.

Full article at the Montreal Gazette