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A 4 page paper. Historically, women have been paid less than men for doing the same job. The gender wage gap has been explained away by differences in experience, education, tenure and a variety of demographic variables. Yet, controlling for all the many variables, there is still a large differential that cannot be explained. This essay provides some recent data relative to the gender wage gap in Canada using official Canadian statistics. Data included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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1995). However, even after factoring in these differences statistically, there remains a gap that is unexplainable. Drolet (1999) reported that "Gender differences in full-year, full-time work experience explain at most,
12% of the gender wage gap. Gender differences in the opportunity to supervise and to perform certain tasks account for about 7% of the gender wage gap. Yet despite the
long list of productivity related factors, a substantial portion of the gender wage gap cannot be explained" (Drolet, 1999). Some writers have noted the cost of equalizing wages would be
too expensive. That argument is a non-argument because it denigrates the quality of work performed by women. There is also some evidence that the gender gap in salaries has been
narrowed over the last several years (Drolet, 1999). According to some research, the gender earnings ratio changed from 72.5 percent in 1967 to 58.4 percent in 1997 (Drolet, 1999). Another
study found the women earn approximately 79 percent of what their male counterparts earn (Drolet, 1999). This may represent progress but it still does not give women the same pay
for the same work. As an explanatory note, if both men and women earned the same for the same job, the pay ratio would be 100 percent, if women
earn less, the ratio is less than 100 percent and if they earn more, the ratio would be greater than 100 percent (Wannell and Caron, 1994). A ratio of
75 would mean that women earn three-fourths of what men are paid for the same job. Coish and Hale point out that larger firms pay higher wages but it seems
to be more difficult for women to be hired by larger firms (1995). One study found there was a 20 percent differential between the wages in large firms compared to
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