Canada will be years past celebrating its tricentennial before the country can close the economic gap between men and women if things keep improving at the glacial pace they are now, a new report says.
The new pay-equity law the federal Liberals are proposing should close Canada's "shameful" gender gap and private-sector employers should follow the government's example, leaders of some of Canada's biggest unions say.
Canada's federal finance minister said on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, the country must do better in closing the gender gap in pay and workforce participation for the health of the economy, but acknowledged getting to parity will be difficult.
The University of Waterloo said a working group tasked with analyzing faculty salaries uncovered a "systemic gender anomaly" that was "consistent across the university."