Communications and Consultations Directorate
This Directorate is the focal point for the external and internal communications advice and planning, preparing speeches and responding to media and public enquiries. It also produces promotional materials for commemorative events, produces and advises on publications and specials projects and carries out media analyses. The Directorate is also responsible for the consultation function within the Department, planning and managing activities with stakeholders such as small, informal roundtables as well as larger, more formal consultations.

Corporate Services Directorate
This Directorate ensures statutory accountability and delivers such services as financial and human resources management, informatics and telecommunications, security, assets, facilities and material management, as well as contract and procurement administration.

Executive and Information Services Directorate
This Directorate is responsible for corporate planning, evaluation and reporting, coordination services and executive support to the Co-ordinator and the Minister responsible for Status of Women, including ministerial services. It provides translation services and information management services including records management, distribution, and library services, which support all aspects of the department's work. It also manages the access to information and privacy programs.

Gender-Based Analysis Directorate
The Gender-based Analysis Directorate assists other federal departments and agencies to set up their own processes to ensure that gender-based analysis is incorporated into all of their policy and program development activities.

Policy and External Relations Directorate
The Policy and External Relations Directorate reviews and conducts gender analysis of existing and proposed federal government policies, legislation, programs and initiatives. It develops recommendations and strategies, and works in cooperation with other federal departments to promote gender equality. It undertakes developmental activities to address policy gaps on issues of concern to women. It also collaborates with various stakeholders, including provincial and territorial governments, civil society and non-governmental organizations, international organizations and other governments on policy-related activities.

Research Directorate
The objective of the Research Directorate is to enhance the public policy debate on current and emerging issues from a gender perspective by identifying and targeting significant gaps in knowledge, responding to these gaps by funding gender-based policy research, and promoting the use of research findings in policy development.

Women's Program and Regional Operations Directorate
The Women's Program (WP) objectives are 1) to promote policies and programs within key institutions that take account of gender implications, the diversity of women's perspectives and enable women to take part in decision-making; 2) to facilitate the involvement of women's organizations in the public policy process; 3) to increase public understanding in order to encourage action on women's equality issues; and 4) to enhance the effectiveness of actions undertaken by women's organizations to improve the situation of women. To do so, the WP provides assistance to women's and other equality-seeking organizations working to remove barriers to women's full participation in Canadian society, at local, regional and national levels. Through the Regional Operations component, the Directorate is also responsible for ensuring the regional implementation of the department's mandate. Regional operations consist of 35 staff located in 15 points of service across the country which provides Status of Women Canada with a direct link to communities and stakeholders.