What is the Power Gap?
It’s been 70 years since Ontario became the first jurisdiction in Canada to pass pay equity legislation. Fifty years since governments began enacting laws that banned discrimination in hiring, firing and promotions on the basis of sex. Forty years since the federal government made it illegal for employers to fire a woman for becoming pregnant. Thirty years since women overtook men in university graduating classes. And it’s been 10 years since the wage gap budged in any significant way.
For women in the workplace, progress has stalled. By almost every metric, they continue to lag generations behind men.
Two and a half years ago, the Globe and Mail set about trying to understand why. What we found is that inequities run much deeper than compensation or a lack of female CEOs.
There is a power gap in the modern work force.
Join investigative reporter Robyn Doolittle and data journalist Chen Wang for a live Q&A about the Power Gap series.
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- Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. EST
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