STATEMENT ON MARRIAGE

REAL Women of Canada supports the view that permanent marriage -- traditional values in a contemporary society -- is possible, desirable and urgently needed in Canada today...

STATEMENT ON DIVORCE

REAL Women of Canada believes the law, once intended to protect marriage and families, should continue to do so, not by offering the easy solution of ready divorce to an ailing marriage, but rather by prescribing improved health through supportive legislation...

STATEMENT ON CHILD CARE

REAL Women of Canada is concerned about women and the care and well-being of the family...

STATEMENT ON EQUAL PAY FOR WORK OF EQUAL VALUE

Equal pay for equal work has long been law in the Canadian provinces (i.e. Ontario Employment Standards Act).  Quite rightly, the latter requires that men and women be paid equally for performing substantially the same work; legislation which  REAL Women of Canada actively promotes...

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

REAL WOMEN OF CANADA supports without exception, the concept that women must have equal opportunity in employment...

STATEMENT ON PROSTITUTION

REAL WOMEN OF CANADA believes that prostitution, defined as the selling of sexual activity for money, has many harmful effects on the prostitutes themselves, clients and their families, the business milieu in which this occurs, and society as a whole...

STATEMENT ON PORNOGRAPHY

REAL WOMEN OF CANADA includes in our definition of pornography any material which depicts violence, uses children in a sexual context, depicts degradation of human beings or sexually explicit acts...

STATEMENT ON ABORTION

REAL WOMEN OF CANADA reaffirms that the family is society’s most important unit: we value equally every family member, born or unborn.  Reproductive choice is exercised prior to conception, because conception and birth are consequences of choice; not choices in themselves...

PENSION AND TAX REFORM

REAL WOMEN OF CANADA is deeply concerned that many women, who would prefer to remain in the home as full-time mothers, are unable to do so, owing to financial pressure.  Further, those women who do remain in the home are lift in a situation which is clearly unfair and inadequate...