Gender_Wage_Gap

Gender Wage Gap In 1967 the female-male wage ratio for full time, full year workers in Canada was 58.4 per cent. In spite of three decades of struggling for equality, this ratio has been increase by only 72.5 per cent, which indicates a 0.67 per cent increase in each year (Shannon and Kidd 2001). Although the government has implemented several public policies, such as the Ontario Mothers Allowance programme and mandatory employment requirements for single parents, to reduce the gender wage gap, this gap still persistently exists in almost all Canadian industrial sectors. Two fundamental questions arise concerning this phenomenon: why does the gender wage gap exist and how can we diminish it more effectively' The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly, this paper will analyze motherhood as a fundamental source of the gender wage gap. Secondly, this paper will explore how this gender wage gap can be diminished more effectively by sharing housework by both genders and providing universal daycare. I will start with explaining why being a mother is the stronger source of the gender wage gap than any other sources. Other than having children, women¡¦s education level and their physical inferiority could be the most probable sources of the per, women, women¡¦s, wage, gender, gap, children, cent, work, interruption, jobs, job, physical, paid, time, hours, due, care, been, absence, while, week, unpaid, source, reasons, interruptions, having, canada, years, thus, sources, men¡¦s, men, lower, long, human