Education levels have led to numerous changes in reducing the gap between the genders vs. The gaps between the genders with less education. The Conference Board of Canada cites the following differences between the different levels of education or training and the differentials between the genders:
Women aged 25 to 29 holding a graduate or professional diploma and working on a full-time, full-year basis earned 96 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts in 2005.
Women with a bachelor's degree earned 89 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts.
Women with a registered apprenticeship or trades certificate earned only 65 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts.
Young women with no high school diploma earned 67 cents for every dollar earned by young men with the same level of education (Conference Board of Canada, Is the gender…Section¶4).
The exclusions to this are in service occupations, the females make 72 cents to the dollar and in managerial positions, females' make 86 cents to the dollar vs. males in the same positions.
The province in Canada, where the laborer resides, results in a difference in income and income differences between men and women. Women in the Ontario area have the greatest income followed by Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, and the lowest income for women comes from the Atlantic regions. The gap between men and women is consistently lower for females and depends on the province. Alberta has the widest gap while Prince Edward has the lowest but the territories have less of a gap than the provinces.
The 2001 census showed differences between single women vs. single men, elderly women vs. elderly men, and lone parent women vs. lone part men.
Conclusion
The opinion of this researcher concludes that a definite differential between men and women in Canada exists and can be attributed to a wide...
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