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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Yes, the consensus seems to be that this is in part due to higher wages. From the article..
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/...-the-workforce
It's dubious that Alberta has a larger male-female wage gap than any other province in Canada? For all our wealth, we've still got a 42% gap between men and women in this province. Even the maritimes are doing better! Does that strike you as fair? How is that "dubious"?
And wage gaps are largely considered to be a motherhood penalty - there's a study from Denmark that found that 80% of the wage gap can be explained by child bearing.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/170183...ldcare-penalty |
Using that lens to define our economy is completely dubious and reckless.
This is the 'diversified Manitoba economy' > 'undversified Alberta economy' argument playing out in in the gender sphere. If you double tapped the oil and gas sector behind the shed you would make Alberta massively poorer, but you would 'close the gender gap' because all those male-dominated field jobs would be gone. Alberta is most certainly not better off for that.