Generation for Equality: Applying to Post-Secondary School Toolkit
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is a national Indigenous organization representing the political voices of Indigenous women in all their diversities in Canada. NWAC advocates for and works with First Nations – on- and off-reserve, status, and non-status, disenfranchised – Métis, and Inuit peoples across Canada. As an aggregate of Indigenous women’s organizations across Canada, NWAC works to enhance, promote and foster the social, economic, cultural, and political well-being of Indigenous women, in all their diversities, within their respective communities.
Generation for Equality
NWAC’s Generation for Equality (G4E) is a platform for Indigenous youth to gather information, ask questions, and connect with others working towards gender equality and gender diversity. The G4E platform represents an Indigenous youth-led movement which provides a critical space for Indigenous youth to engage on the issues impacting them the most. The Generation for Equality platform includes, and celebrates, the voices and experiences of Indigenous youth of all genders and gender expressions advocating for gender equality and gender-diversity.
About This Toolkit
Over the last decade, educational incomes have marginally improved among Indigenous peoples. Despite these improvements, educational attainment for Indigenous youth continues to fall behind that of non-Indigenous people.1 In Canada, Indigenous youth face significant barriers to accessing and attaining higher levels of education, which are multifaceted and interconnected. Some of these barriers include:
- Inadequate financial resources
- Lack of culturally relevant curricular
- A lack of confidence or feeling unprepared
- Having other responsibilities
- Experiences of racism and discrimination
- Effects of intergenerational trauma.2
1 Melvin, A. (Oct. 27, 2023). “Postsecondary educational attainment and labour market outcomes among
Indigenous peoples in Canada, findings from the 2021 Census.” Statistics Canada: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/ n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article/00012-eng.htm
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