SPPG Fellow Donna Dasko profiled by The Globe and Mail for her work to get more women into political office
May 13, 2016 | By Public Policy Admin |
There are now 33 female senators compared with 54 men in the Canadian Senate. Donna Dasko, national pollster, sociologist, and long-time advocate for women in politics, is working to achieve gender parity in Parliament’s Upper House.
Donna Dasko is one of Canada’s best known and respected survey researchers and pollsters. During her career as Senior Vice-President of Environics Research Group Ltd, she took a leadership role in bringing opinion analysis to bear on some of this country’s most important public policy and communications issues. Working primarily with public-sector clients, she led major research studies in areas including federal and provincial budget priorities, the economy, national unity, political choice, health care, health promotion, and tobacco control.
She is a leader in developing election polling and media-sponsored polling. She developed the Globe-Environics Poll and led the CBC- Environics polling program for federal elections and feature polling assignments from 1993 to 2008.
She is co-founder and Past National Chair of Equal Voice, a national non-partisan organization dedicated to electing more women to public office in Canada. In December 2015 she founded the Campaign for an Equal Senate for Canada, pressing for a gender-equal Senate. She has served as director of several non-profit organizations.
She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from the University of Toronto.
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