Seven of the largest law firms in Canada have signalled they are willing to share gender wage-gap data for research purposes, similar to what firms in the United States and Britain have been doing for years.
Seven of the largest law firms in the country have signalled they are willing to share gender wage-gap data for research purposes, similar to what firms in the United States and Britain have been doing for years. Borden Ladner Gervais, Norton Rose Fulbright, Stikeman Elliott, Aird & Berlis, Dentons, …
To what extent are men and women with the same job being compensated differently? That was the question that sparked this investigation two and a half years ago. From there, as so often happens, the reporting pulled the project in new directions. Early analysis showed that while the wage gap was …
At some of Canada’s most important public institutions – municipal and provincial governments, universities and publicly owned corporations – women are hitting the glass ceiling as mid-level managers, well below the executive level that attracts public scrutiny. These taxpayer-funded or …
What is the Power Gap? It’s been 70 years since Ontario became the first jurisdiction in Canada to pass pay equity legislation. Fifty years since governments began enacting laws that banned discrimination in hiring, firing and promotions on the basis of sex. Forty years since the federal government …
Gabriela Sefcikova, a project manager at an engineering firm, had a feeling she was being paid less than her male counterparts. But when the company assigned her new financial responsibilities – and access to the budgets – she says she got her proof. The paperwork showed that other project managers …
1. Women are penalized for having children An influential study of parents in Denmark found that women with children will earn about 20 per cent less than men over the course of their careers. Men’s earnings, meanwhile, are “essentially unaffected” by fatherhood. Another study, which followed the …
