Women and Gender Equality Canada
What Women and Gender Equality Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development; the overview shows it in that ministry.
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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$398M
spent by Women and Gender Equality Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.1%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Women and Gender Equality Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
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, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Personnel
Information
Professional and special services
Transportation and communications
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Other subsidies and payments
Utilities, materials and supplies
Repair and maintenance
$337M
$48.2M
$7.2M
$3.6M
$766K
$635K
$367K
$119K
$57K
$23K
Total: $398M.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$48.2M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
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, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Women and Gender Equality Canada paid, program by program: $337M in all, against $337M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program – Contributions to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex + organizationsPayments | Contribution | $206,159,290 |
| Women's Program-Contributions to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian societyPayments | Contribution | $97,336,232 |
| 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 levelsPayments | Contribution | $26,716,098 |
| Women's Program-Grants to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian societyPayments | Grant | $3,377,997 |
| Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program – Grants to support capacity building and community-level work of Canadian Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex + organizationsPayments | Grant | $1,976,383 |
| 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 levelsPayments | Grant | $1,298,836 |
| 6 programs | $336,864,836 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
