The Canadian Press 20/06/2024 13:36 A new study shows the gender pay gap in Canada’s tech sector almost tripled between 2016 and 2021. Researchers at The Dais, a public policy organization based at Toronto Metropolitan University, says the average woman tech worker was making $71,400 in 2021 compared with $91,000 earned by their male counterpart. They say that gap has widened significantly since 2016, when men earned $7,200 more than women. The gaps continued when researchers looked at the earnings of visible-minority tech workers, who made an average of $78,800 a year in Canada in 2021 compared with $93,000 for those not considered to be part of a visible minority group. The average Indigenous tech worker was found to make roughly $14,000 less than non-Indigenous counterparts. The research The Dais…
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