Labour Force Participation Rate

: This is Canada lowest rate of women labour force participation since 2002, and a reversal of decades of gradually growing gender equality through women participation in the workforce, according to Huffington Post Canada. With a population of 14.7-million women aged 15 and over in Canada last year, this 0.6 percentage point decline in the participation rate meant 88,000 fewer women in the workforce. Who are they and why did they leave Over 80,000 women left Canada labour force in 2014, bringing their labour force participation rate down to 61.6 per cent from 62.2 per cent in 2013. If women participation rates hadn't declined in 2014, the unemployment rate for women unemployment rate would have risen from 6.4 to 7.3 per cent. While there was a decline in women labour force participation immediately following the recession of the early 1990s, the decline last year comes five years after the recession was supposedly over. This would have been the highest annual rate in 15 years and even higher than it was during the 2009-10 recession years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.