Global News published this video item, entitled “International Equal Pay Day: how high is the gender wage gap in Canada?” – below is their description.
It’s ‘International Equal Pay Day’, coined by the UN in 2019 to raise awareness about gender pay gaps around the world. The UN finds that globally, women earn less than 80 cents for every dollar men earn. Statistics Canada says in this country it sits at 87 cents for every dollar earned by a man, according to a 2018 study. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says Canada now has the eighth highest gender wage gap in the world. Global News’ Sharmeen Somani reports.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.