At one of Canada’s largest business law practices, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, women who are equity partners earned nearly 25 per cent less than their male colleagues on average, a confidential document...

When veteran lawyer Peter Lukasiewicz became CEO of Gowling WLG (Canada) in 2016, he pledged to bring more women into the national law firm’s partnership. It’s the kind of thing law firm leaders have promising...

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...

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,...

Women were already nearly absent from the country’s C-suites before COVID-19 hit. Now, the pandemic threatens to halt Corporate Canada’s tepid progress, a setback for women’s careers that puts an eventual...

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,...

Bay Street’s boys’ club has a long history of making nonsensical excuses to exclude women from positions of power. One infamous incident occurred in 1976, when W. Earle McLaughlin, then chairman and president...

Vandana Juneja is the executive director of Catalyst Canada At Catalyst we have watched the glacial pace of progress for women and underrepresented groups for years. Along the way, the message from Corporate...