The analysis that comes out of Statistics Canada is meant to be objective information provided to policy departments. We do produce all of this information, we do analyze the results, and then it's up to the policy departments to kind of take it.
I think the step you're talking about is the next step: asking what this means and what policy should be in place because of it. That's where Statistics Canada steps back, and purposely so, so that we're not necessarily influencing the results we put out because we have a particular project or goal in mind.
Definitely there are lots of results in Women in Canada that should give a sense of how Canadian women are doing. In terms of the income wage gap, it hasn't really changed over the last seven, eight, nine years. It's remained at about 30%, and doesn't seem to be changing.
Recent analysis looking at the wage gap for young women—thinking that maybe the baby boomers still going through are having a negative impact—finds that even amongst young women who are highly educated, there's still a 20% gap. It's probably related to occupational segregation: women are in jobs where the real wage isn't improving, while the men are in jobs where it is.
It's kind of a complex picture. I guess as a general statement, what we produce are the numbers, and that's as far as we go. So it's up to the political people and the policy departments to take the next step.