Canadian House of Commons, testimony on women’s unpaid work, Dec 10, 2020

Expert Panel, Century Initiative

Op-eds

Doucet, A., and de Latt, Kim. (2022). Parental leave needs an overhaul. Policy Options. Feb 2022.
Doucet, A., Mathieu, S., and McKay, L. (2020) Redesign Parental Leave System to Enhance Gender Equality. Policy Options. Oct 2020
McKay, L., and Doucet, A. (2016) It’s about time we give parental leave a much needed facelift: The rest of Canada should follow Quebec’s leave eligibility example. Winnipeg Free Press.
Mathieu, S., McKay, L., and Doucet, A. (2016) Mieux vaut être mère au Québec: Le régime de congés parentaux a 10 ans: le bilan est nettement positif. Le Devoir.
McKay, L., Doucet, A. and Mathieu, S. (2015) “A letter to Prime Minister Trudeau: It’s 2015, and time for a more inclusive parental leave program” Rabble.
Doucet, A. (2012). The evolution of the stay-at-home dad. Ottawa Citizen.
Doucet, A. (2012) Op-Ed: For Equality, Take Fathers Into Account, Room for Debate, Opinion Pages, The New York Times, June 14.
Doucet, A. (2012). Dads are Very Much Involved in Parenting. The New York Times.
Doucet, A. (2012) Op Ed: Scholarly Reflections on Blogging: Once a Tortoise, Never a Hare, The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 3.
Doucet, A. (2011) Op-Ed: Between the Two F-Words: Fathering and Feminism, The Huffington Post.
Doucet, A. (2009) Can Men Mother?” Transitions Magazine 39(1): 1-5. Ottawa, ON: Vanier Institute of the Family, 2009
Doucet, A. (2004) Op-Ed: “Making Room For Papa: (Canada looking to Sweden on Family Policy)” Fact and Argument, The Ottawa Citizen, 2004
Doucet, A. (1986) Op-Ed: “What’s wrong with American Policy in Central America? Nicaragua is not Grenada” The Ottawa Citizen, 1986.

Briefs, presentations and consultations

Participated in RoundTable with federal Minister Carla Qualtrough, Employment, Workforce Development, and Disability Inclusion. December 13, 2021.
Appeared as expert witness on issues of paid and unpaid work, Standing Committee of Women and Gender Equality Canada, December 10, 2020
Appeared as expert witness on Bill C-86, the Standing Committee of Finance, House of Commons, November 6, 2018
Invited brief to Senate on Bill C-86 (Division 8) on parental leave benefits, Andrea Doucet, Lindsey McKay and Sophie Mathieu, November 2018
Jewel, E., Doucet, A., Falk, J., and Fyke, S. (2018). Indigenous employment engagement in Niagara: Social knowing, mental health, and the importance of Indigenous resources. Report to the Government of Ontario, Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund.
Doucet, A., and McKay, L. (2018). Les deux politiques de régimes parentaux du Canada: un argument en faveur du congé réservé aux pères. (“Canada’s two parental leave policy regimes: An argument for dedicated leave time for fathers“) Rapport rédigé pour les 10 ans due Régime Québécois d’assurance parentale. Québec: Conseil de Gestion de L’Assurance Parentale.
Mathieu, S., McKay, L., and Doucet, A. (2018). Politiques sociales, soutien au travail de soins et inégalités de classes. (“Labour Market Policies, Support for Parental Caregiving, and Class Inequality”), Rapport rédigé pour les 10 ans du Régime Québécois d’assurance parentale. Québec: Conseil de Gestion de L’Assurance Parentale.
Expert testimony to the Status of Women Committee, House of Commons Canada, on Economic Security. Ottawa, ON (via videoconference). March 21, 2017.
McKay, L., Doucet, A., & Mathieu, S. with Adams Coons, C. (2017). Brief submitted to the Status of Women Committee, House of Commons of Canada, “Study of economic security of women in Canada and equal participation of women in the Canadian economy”. http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/HOC/Committee/421/FEWO/Brief/BR8829936/br-external/DoucetAndrea-e.pdf
Doucet, A., McKay, L., and Mathieu, S. (2016) Who/whose benefits: Gender and class issues in parental leave in Quebec and Canada, Paper presented at CUPE Child Care. Roundtable Featured Panel, Ottawa, ON.
McKay, L., Mathieu, S., and Doucet, A. (2016) Parental-leave rich and parental-leave poor: Closing Equality Gaps in Canadian Parental Leave Policy. Paper presented at the Canadian Labour Congress, EI and Women’s Issues Committee, Ottawa.

Organized events

15th annual International Seminar of the International Network of Leave Policies and Research. “Canadian Parental Leave Policies: design, equality, fit and futures,” Toronto, July 13-14, 2018, The Leave Policies and Research Network, (with Lindsey McKay and Sophie Mathieu).
The 33rd Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference: Visual Methods and Visual Ethnographies (Brock University, May 11-13, 2016, The Qualitatives)
Consuming Intimacies Symposium (Brock University, Oct 15-17, 2015, co-organized with Robyn Lee, Lindsey McKay and Alana Cattapan)