Gender Wage Gap in Canada
Gender discrimination has been so rampant in most of the global countries. There is a
misconception that women are weak and cannot handle tasks that men are known to handle. In
most societ
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Gender Wage Gap in Canada
Gender discrimination has been so rampant in most of the global countries. There is a
misconception that women are weak and cannot handle tasks that men are known to handle. In
most societies across the world, women are given the lowest rank in the tasks that they can
undertake; hence they are mistreated based on that misconception. As a result, there are earning
gaps between men and women, where men earn more than women. The women are ranked to
handle easy tasks that deserve low payments, unlike men, who handle heavy tasks that deserve
high payments. For instance, there is a gender wage gap in Canada, which exists between men
and women, where men earn more than women. In this paper, I will discuss with quantitative
evidence, the issue of gender wage gap narrowing that took place between the year 1998 and
2018 in the earnings between men and women in Canada.
The Gender Wage Gap Reduction (1998-2018)
In Canada, the women between 25 to 54 years of age earned approximately 800 dollars in
a month, whereas the men in the same age brackets earned an approximate of 900 dollars per
month (Antonie, Plesca & Teng, 2016). You notice that there was a substantial difference in the
earnings between men and women between 1998 and 2018. These statistics implied that the
wage gap between the two genders was significant and that there was a need to solve the
difference. At that time, women's oppression was prominent not only in Canada but also in other
countries across the world. The facts also indicated that the Canadian women had surpassed men
in higher learning attainment, yet they earned less than men for the last decades (Antonie, Plesca
& Teng, 2016). Even though the women have diversified their profession in different academic
fields, their recognition in the job market is still very low (Arcila, Ferrer & Schirle, 2017).
Several factors explain the gender wage gap in the earnings of men and women in Canada.
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