Good on you, however I wish you would take a little more interest in a very large group of women who do not have equal status with men and that is the women who live under the rule of sharia law of ultra conservative Islam as taught by the Wahhabis throughout the Muslim world in their religious schools or Madrassas and financed by Saudi Arabia. 
Although it may be difficult to find women that fit into this group in Canada, there are no doubt many and a starting point would probably be the women that wear Niqabs and Burkas (with face veils), a custom of Wahhabism.