No matter the calculus, women in Canada continue to earn less than men. These are the key statistics to understand EqualPayDay
Statisticians have been examining the gender wage gap for decades now, isolating for different factors to try to understand what’s driving the sticky phenomenon. They’ve found that, no matter how you manipulate the data, women in Canada earn less than men. That’s the reality for women, as a diverse group, as soon as they enter the workforce, and it widens over the course of their career.
This measure of the wage gap is widely criticized for omitting differences in the number of hours men and women work or the types of jobs they do. Others say it’s the most accurate calculation of the gender wage gap for that very reason. “That measure encompasses all the different ways in which systemic sex discrimination results in women having lower pay,” says Fay Faraday, a Toronto-based human rights lawyer.
The number doesn’t factor in differences in the types of jobs men and women do, nor does it fully capture differences in the number of hours they work. That said, this number represents the majority of workers in Canada, and like the 31% calculation, the unidentified factors baked into this figure—bias, subtle and overt discrimination, societal norms, women’s career choices, etc.—offer important insight into the gender pay equity problem.
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