While Canada’s gender pay gap has steadily improved since the late 1970s, women’s ongoing under-representation among the top 10 per cent of Canadian earners is accounting for “a substantial and growing share of the gender gap in total annual earnings,” according to a new Statistics Canada study.
analyzed Canadians’ earnings between 1978 and 2015. It showed that while the gender pay gap -- which is the average annual earnings of employed women as percentage of the average annual earnings of employed men -- rose from 54 per cent in 1978 to 69 per cent in 2009, it has hovered around that latter number ever since.
In its analysis, Statistics Canada grouped workers into four earnings categories: the bottom 90 per cent, the next nine per cent, the next 0.9 per cent and the top 0.1 per cent, who had an average income of over $2 million in 2015. More specifically, in 2015 men still outnumbered women by about seven to one in the top 0.1 per cent earnings group, by nearly five to one in the next 0.9 per cent and by three to one in the next nine per cent. By contrast, women represented just over half of all workers in the bottom 90 per cent of earners.
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