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Closing Canada's gender gap

18 Apr 2013

BEHIND THE NUMBERS / April 2013 Closing Canada’s Gender Gap Year 2240 Here We Come! Kate McInturff very year the World Economic Forum measures the progress of the world’s Enations in closing the gap between the participation of men and women in four areas: education, health, the economy, and politics. [...] As the name suggests, the report measures the gap between the access women and men have to the resources that are available (not the level of those resources). [...] This is why a lower-middle income country, Mongolia, came in first in the rankings for economic opportunity in 2012, whereas Canada came in twelfth.1 Although the average income for the population of Canada is higher than that in Mongolia, the gap between men’s income and women’s income is greater in Canada. [...] The income gap between men and women increases rapidly in their 30s and women’s earnings peak when they are in their early 50s and starts a rapid decline in the last decade of their working lives.5 What emerges from these indicators is this: the closer women get to the top, the greater the barriers to achieving equality. [...] In the best-selling book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg describes the problem of increasing women’s participation in leadership roles as “the ultimate chicken-and-egg situation”: “The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles [….] The egg: We need to elimin- ate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first p
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Authors

McInturff, Kate Elaine

Pages
10
Published in
Canada

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