Women, Gender Equality and Youth
How Women, Gender Equality and Youth spent its budget in fiscal year 2024-25, shown as net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II.
Women and Gender Equality Canada is the federal department responsible for advancing gender equality, including matters related to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression. It funds community organizations, supports research, and administers programs addressing gender-based violence and barriers to women's full participation in Canadian economic, social, and political life. Much of its work is carried out through funding provided to external organizations rather than through large internal operations.
In the 2024–25 fiscal year, Women, Gender Equality and Youth recorded total spending of $369M, equal to 0.1% of total federal spending. Nearly all of this spending was recorded within the Department for Women and Gender Equality, the department's sole reporting entity in the year's data.
Transfer payments make up the majority of the department's activity, delivered mainly through contribution and grant programs to external organizations. The largest of these was the Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program, which supports capacity building and community-level work for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender-diverse people in Canada. Other major programs included the Women's Program, which funds women's and other voluntary organizations working to further women's participation in Canadian society, and the Gender-based Violence Funding Program, which supports organizations and other levels of government in developing responses to gender-based violence.
Department Spending
In FY 2024-25,
$369M
was spent by Women, Gender Equality and Youth
In FY 2024-25,
0.1%
of federal spending was by Women, Gender Equality and Youth
On the consolidated accrual basis (Volume I), this portfolio’s expenses were $522.6M in FY 2024-25 — see the overview and methodology.
How did Women, Gender Equality and Youth spend its budget in 2024-25?
Spending by entity, FY 2024-25
Department for Women and Gender Equality
$369M
Women, Gender Equality and Youth’s share of federal spending
Percentage of federal spending, 2019–2025
Line items
Every transfer-payment (grant and contribution) program, in dollars. These are the named programs behind the transfer-payments object in the chart above. Search, sort, and download the full table.
| Category | Description | Amount ▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Contributions | 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 and additional sexually and gender diverse people in Canada | $184,446,270 |
| Contributions | Women's Program—Contributions to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian society | $80,138,725 |
| Contributions | 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 levels | $30,468,589 |
| Grants | Women's Program—Grants to women's and other voluntary organizations for the purpose of furthering women's participation in Canadian society | $4,162,642 |
| Grants | 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 and additional sexually and gender diverse people in Canada | $2,366,808 |
| Grants | 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 levels | $896,116 |
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Women, Gender Equality and Youth figures are net expenditures by standard object from Public Accounts Volume II, and will not match the Volume I consolidated headline totals. See the methodology for details.
