Women made up nearly half (47.7 per cent) of Canada’s workforce in 2016, according to figures from Statistics Canada, marking a noteworthy rise on 1976’s 37.3 per cent. While that’s good news for the labour force in general, women continue to come up short in some sectors, including financial services. Camilla Sutton, president and chief […]
The province of Ontario is tackling pay transparency by introducing legislation that requires employers to track and publish information about compensation in their organizations. The proposed legislation, if passed, will require all publicly advertised job postings to include a range or rate of salary, prohibit employers from inquiring about a job candidate’s past compensation and prohibit reprisals against employees who […]
While the government didn’t denote any dollar amount to support its efforts to promote gender pay equity, the 2018 federal budget did state that legislation would be forthcoming to improve the situations for women in Canada who work in federally regulated workplaces. The budget, announced Tuesday, illustrated the gender wage gap in two ways: in terms of yearly median […]
The average retirement savings of women in the United States is one-third lower than the savings of their male counterparts, according to a new study by Prudential Retirement. The paper notes a combination of behavioural patterns and external pressures putting women at a disadvantage in terms of planning for and saving toward retirement, including the […]
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police pension plan doesn’t discriminate against women, a federal judge has ruled. Allison Pilgrim, Joanne Fraser and Colleen Fox all joined the RCMP in the 1980s. When job-sharing became available in 1997, they each took advantage of the program to care for their young children. But they didn’t realize that job-sharing officers couldn’t buy […]
The gender pay gap in Canada could close by 2035, according to new research published by consulting firm Accenture to coincide with International Women’s Day. Of course, that’s if employers and policy-makers provide support, and if women are encouraged to make informed career choices, manage their careers proactively, use digital technology to learn and work, and […]