Women\u2011dominated jobs underpaid<\/p>\n
The report also highlights women\u2011dominated occupations in health care, education and community services as being systemically undervalued.<\/p>\n
\u201cCare aides, educational assistants, early childhood educators, clerical staff, health care support workers, and social services workers carry enormous responsibility, skill, and emotional labour,\u201d the AFL notes. \u201cYet these women-dominated occupations are routinely paid less than men-dominated roles requiring comparable training, accountability, and working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the brief, unions \u201csee this every day at the bargaining table,\u201d and caregiving and service work have historically been treated as extensions of unpaid women\u2019s labour. By contrast, construction, utilities, energy and trades\u2014sectors dominated by men\u2014are \u201cstructured and compensated very differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
National research cited by the AFL finds that nearly two\u2011thirds of the gender pay gap cannot be explained by education, experience, job attributes, occupation or industry, a pattern consistent with studies from the United States and United Kingdom. \u201cThe biggest factor causing the gender wage gap is discrimination,\u201d the report concludes. \u201cWomen\u2019s work is consistently undervalued and underpaid.\u201d<\/p>\n
The brief says the gender pay gap is wider for some groups of women. In 2022, the national average gap for core\u2011age women who immigrated to Canada as adults was 21%, and 20% for Indigenous women. Senior women earned 26% less than senior men, and women executives across Canada earned 56% less than male executives in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women\u2011dominated jobs underpaid The report also highlights women\u2011dominated occupations in health care, education and community services as being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[116193,49,48,65836,44,23900],"class_list":{"0":"post-529656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-alberta-federation-of-labour","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-minimum-wage","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pay-equity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}