Maryam Monsef

Minister of International Development & Minister for Women and Gender Equality in Canada

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Maryam Monsef Biography

The Honourable Maryam Monsef is the Member of Parliament for Peterborough—Kawartha, and Canada’s Minister for Women and Gender Equality.

After running for Mayor of Peterborough in 2014, she became the first woman to be elected in the federal riding of Peterborough—Kawartha, the first Afghan-Canadian Member of Parliament in Canada’s history, and the first Muslim to serve as a federal Cabinet Minister.

Drawing on her years of experience in community organizing, Minister Monsef has worked with local organizations, including the YWCA of Peterborough and Haliburton Board of Directors, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group, and the New Canadians Centre. She has served as the Vice-President of the YWCA in her riding, and sat on a number of councils and committees dedicated to promoting social and economic justice. She also founded the Red Pashmina Campaign, which raised money to support education for women and girls in Afghanistan.

As Minister for Women and Gender Equality, she has led Status of Women Canada’s transition from agency to the new Department for Women and Gender Equality, and has secured major investments in Canada’s equality-seeking movement, including over $200 million to help prevent and address gender-based violence, and $100 million to build the capacity of women’s organizations from coast to coast to coast. She launched the first-ever federal gender-based violence strategy, has worked with the Minister of Finance to ensure that all federal budgets have to undergo a gender budgeting process; and partnered with the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour and the President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Digital Government to create and pass historic proactive pay equity legislation to ensure equal pay for work of equal value in the federally regulated sector.

Minister Monsef has lived in Peterborough since 1996, and has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Trent University. She speaks English, Farsi and Dari, and continues to work on her French.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/29/2024.

Maryam Monsef Videos

  • Maryam Monsef: Advancing Gender Equality
    Maryam Monsef, federal minister for women and gender equality, joins Steve Paikin to discuss her government's efforts towards greater gender...
  • My Personal Story - Minister Maryam Monsef
    Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef spends the day with CPAC’s Jacqueline Milczarek in the riding of Peterborough-Kawartha. It was in...
  • Maryam Monsef on Electoral Reform
    Maryam Monsef is Canada's new minister responsible for democratic institutions. Here she is on The Agenda with Steve Paikin on October 23 talking...

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