A Growing Concern: Ontario's Gender Pay Gap

 

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April 16, 2014 marks Equal Pay Day in Ontario.

It falls on this day because a woman, on average, would have to work all last year, plus all working days up until April 16 of the current year just to make the average male income. It's a week later than last year, which means the gap between women's and men's average earnings is getting bigger, not smaller. 

See our full report for the details.

Put another way, a woman would have to work till age 79 to make what a man makes by retirement age.

Here are some fast facts, in the form of a special edition of Hennessy's Index.

 

 

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