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July 23, 1997
Are Women Catching Up in the Earnings Race?
Some interesting statistics from the above-titled report, released on July 23, 1997, by the Canadian Council on Social Development, are found below:
Among full-time full-year workers, women took home one-third of all earnings in 1995, up from one-quarter of all wages in 1981. -
The average earnings of all women earners in
1995 were $20,219. Men's average earnings that year were $31,053.
- In 1984, 82 per cent of female and 46 per cent of male full-time, full-year workers earned less than $37,000 annually. By 1994, those percentages dropped to 75 per cent for women working full-time full-year, and remained at 46 per cent for men.
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In both 1984 and 1994, the largest single concentration of male full-time, full-year earners were in the top two deciles, earning more than $48,000 annually.
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By 1994, women made up one-quarter of all full-year, full-time workers
earning more than $37,000 annually; in 1984, they comprised only one-fifth of this group.
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Women made up 17 per cent of all earners in the top decile in 1994, up from 11.5 per cent a decade earlier. This translates into 275,000 women and 1.3 million men who earned more than $51,000 per year in 1994.
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The number of women aged 40 to 54 working full-time for a full year nearly doubled between 1984 and 1994 – from less than 700,000 to 1.35 million. The number of men in this age group working full-time full-year also increased over the decade – from
1.3 million to 1.9 million.
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The number and proportion of young women (those aged 20 to 24)
working full-time full-year dropped substantially, from 410,000 in 1984 to
256,000
in 1994. The number of young full-time full-year male workers also dropped over the decade, but at
a lower rate than for women – from about 400,000 to 325,000. One reason for the drop in labour force participation in this age group was their increasing pursuit of post-secondary education. Sixty per cent of young women and 45 per
cent of young men had more than 13 years of schooling in 1994, compared to 40 per cent of young women and 27 per cent of young men in 1984.
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An increasing number of young men and women are working part-time, often because they cannot find full-time employment. Nearly 43 per cent of young workers had part-time jobs in 1994, up from 30 per cent a decade earlier. Among young women, the rate
rose from 34 per cent to 48 per cent; for young men, the rate increased from 27 per cent to 38 per cent.
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Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 0G5
Tel: (613) 236-8977, Fax: (613) 236-2750, Web: www.ccsd.ca, Email: council@ccsd.ca
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