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Women and Gender Equality Canada

What Women and Gender Equality Canada spent in fiscal year 2021-22: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Women and Gender Equality Canada does

Women and Gender Equality Canada leads federal efforts to advance gender equality, including programming that addresses gender-based violence and supports the participation of women, youth, and other underrepresented groups in Canadian society.

Spending, 2021-22

Net spending, 2021-22

$231M

spent by Women and Gender Equality Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2021-22

0.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Women and Gender Equality Canada spend its budget in 2021-22?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2021-22

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Information

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Transportation and communications

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Other subsidies and payments

Repair and maintenance

Utilities, materials and supplies

$177M

$39.8M

$8.6M

$2.7M

$1M

$562K

$188K

$158K

$113K

$47K

$41K

Total: $231M.

Spending by program, 2021-22

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $231M in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2021-22

Full-time equivalents

370

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$39.8M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$108K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.

Transfer payment programs, 2021-22

The grants, contributions and other transfers Women and Gender Equality Canada paid, program by program: $177M in all, against $177M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Women's Program-Contributions to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian societyPaymentsContribution$142,230,564
Gender-based Violence Funding Program - Contributions to Canadian organizations, institutions and other levels of government to improve supports and help create long-term, comprehensive solutions for survivors at the national, regional, and local levelsPaymentsContribution$16,383,750
Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program - Contributions to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian LGBTQ2 organizationsPaymentsContribution$9,897,194
Women's Program-Grants to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian societyPaymentsGrant$6,964,467
Gender-based Violence Funding Program - Grants to Canadian organizations, institutions and other levels of government to improve supports and help create long-term, comprehensive solutions for survivors at the national, regional, and local levelsPaymentsGrant$1,836,831
Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program - Grants to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian LGBTQ2 organizationsPaymentsGrant$110,287
6 programs$177,423,093

Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$129,908$167,560$0$387,436$684,904
2024$112,449$301,617$0$370,494$784,559
2023$163,025$689,738$0$531,684$1,384,447
2022$78,956$413,331$0$599,615$1,091,902
2021$107,928$273,152$0$669,890$1,050,971
2020$116,996$298,404$0$410,278$825,678
2019$167,966$786,597$0$395,706$1,350,270
2018$91,284$596,116$0$367,049$1,054,449

Women and Gender Equality Canada’s share of federal net spending

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