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Honestly question, why should we expect immigrants to have equal pay? They’re typically not native speakers, and they’re often without the sort of professional network you have to build. They’re also more inclined to take lower paying jobs to satisfy visa requirements or because they’re not used to Canadian cost of living.
Two things I’ve observed, first, I interview way more unqualified male candidates for jobs than women by a very wide margin (meaning more men probably get jobs they’re barely qualified for at higher pay), and second I’ve found in the private sector you need to really push for raises and promotions, whereas public sector it’s much more seniority based with some pushing needed to get acting positions. In my experience men tend to push more for raises than women.
Personally the more formal the promotion/pay system at a company is, the less interested I am in working there, and that’s probably true if a lot of other men.
I’m not trying to dismiss the findings, but I’d like to see more variables like that taken into account.
I’ve seen this first hand, and I’m not a woman. There’s also a fatherhood penalty. The issue seems to be you go away and it creates a gap that other people fill, then you come back and have to start from square one on your performance review and you lose all momentum.
This study does a lot of assuming. Becoming a parent is a life changing event, for men there are provider stereotypes, and maybe men with children push harder for promotions because now they have to care for a family. Conversely, women tend to make more sacrifices for their family, and how does that play out in the data?
Does this result in an up and out effect for men? My first job out of school in private sector paid higher than the top band of government salary, so personally working in government has never made any sense for me given my skills.
These reports tend to focus on measuring the outcome, because that's the measurable KPI.
It leaves as an exercise to the reader to guess the cause, and your comment shows exactly what i believed for years. "There is an inequality of outcome because people typically act differently".
I now realize that the gender pay gap is just the outcome of bias in the workplace... Whether conscious or inconscious. We must recognize them and actively try to counteract their effects of we want to reduce the gender pay gap. Something often criticized as "reversed sexism".
You're right, but I guess I want to know what can and cannot be fixed, or how much fixing issues might go to affect the bigger picture