The Vancity study says more financial literacy courses can help women bridge
financial health gaps and it urges governments to diversify vocational interests among girls and women, while companies are encouraged to develop and stick with equal pay policies.
Not exact matches
There are
financial services firms on the Fortune list like Wells Fargo, Visa, and Charles Schwab, healthcare - focused companies (
Health Net, McKesson, Molina Healthcare), energy giants like PG&E and Chevron, and more companies operating in industries outside of technology like Walt Disney and
Gap.
Saying New York is «ground zero» in the
financial crisis that has emptied states» pockets across the country, Paterson outlined a plan that carves $ 686 million from education spending and $ 500 million from
health care services to close the state's $ 3 billion budget
gap.
However, the Vancity study, titled «Money Troubled: Inside B.C.'s
financial health gender
gap,» finds one - third of B.C. women surveyed say they are too busy to think about their cash flow beyond the day - to - day.
«The income
gap for Canadian women is real and many are faced with greater obstacles to achieving their long - term
financial health,» says Karrie Van Belle, managing director with BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd. «Women spend a bigger proportion of their income on necessities like mortgages, rent and utilities and have less to put aside for investing.
It helps fill
gaps in the
financial protection you get from your major - medical
health insurance.
Key issues such as obesity, climate change, and closing the
gap on
health and healthcare disparities, especially for Indigenous Australians, were rarely, if ever, raised by Ley — remarkable for a portfolio charged with overseeing the physical and mental
health and wellbeing of the Australian population and the
financial sustainability of the healthcare budget.
The Commission has welcomed the substantial
financial commitments for Indigenous
health made under the COAG National Indigenous Reform Agreement and the COAG National Integrated Strategy for Closing the
Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage.
Financial commitments of this size, accompanying the current reform agenda, bodes well for the future of a partnership between Indigenous peoples and their representatives and the future of our collective efforts to close the Indigenous
health and life expectancy
gap.