Morneau said the numbers are startling as women still earn 88 cents for every dollar earned by men on an hourly basis. “I certainly do not accept the argument that [Canada] should be 15th out of 29 OECD in terms of pay gap between men and women. We absolutely can do better,” Bill Morneau said speaking to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on the recently released federal budget. CALGARY—Canada’s federal finance minister said Wednesday the country must do better in closing the gender gap in pay and workforce participation for the health of the economy, but acknowledged getting to parity will be difficult. Women’s participation rate in the labour force also still lags at 61 per cent to men’s 70 per cent, but a closing of that gap would help boost the economy, said Morneau.

Source: thestar March 07, 2018 19:49 UTC