In addition to helping organize the conference, the federal government provided funding for Canadian women's groups to participate. 1994 - Statistics Canada publishes its fourth study on the value of household work, The Value of Household Work in Canada , 1992. It confirms the patterns of time-use surveys and will enable further analysis of paid and unpaid work patterns for different population groups across the country. Inclusion of these type of questions in the Census is the result of much hard work and commitment on the part of grass-roots, Canadian women's organizations. 1997 - A coalition of women's groups led by Mothers are Women holds a policy symposium on unpaid work.
Unpaid work is central to the development of the 'work' indicators.
1998 - The federal Budget includes a tax credit for unpaid work by caregivers. 100 companies combined. This is four times the rate of the average firm. Overall, businesswomen in these sectors tend to be younger than their male counterparts. The number of women-led companies grew in every province between 1991 and 1994.