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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 |
And I think that same study indicates a female-female mother wage gap as well? The reality is that women who become mothers have an earnings decline that men and women who do not have children do not have. It’s not dubious or misogynistic. It’s biology in a lot of cases.