Status of Women committee  I might come back, but I believe that one of the upcoming chapters of Women in Canada is going to focus on women with disabilities. I assume it would include a lot of data about employment.

Status of Women committee  I haven't seen that either, of course.

Status of Women committee  As you're well aware, there are many studies about pay equity and differences in wages, but I'm not sure about that trend line.

Status of Women committee  I think you've just articulated it very well. Pay equity is a technical calculation. It's supposed to be comparing exact jobs with exact jobs. There are different ways of doing that, which I believe have been discussed with this committee before. The wage gap is more a social phe

Status of Women committee  If you like, I can try.

Status of Women committee  As you're aware from our other appearances in front of the committee, we at Status of Women are doing a lot of work on gender-based analysis plus with other federal departments. That includes the economic departments. The discussion is in the context of departments where there is

Status of Women committee  I'd suggest to you it would probably be better to take the question to our colleagues from ESDC who will be appearing soon, but it is certainly part of their mandate commitments and platforms to be working on flexible work arrangements and altering EI benefits.

Status of Women committee  The government is working across all federal departments together—that would include the Departments of Indigenous Affairs, Employment, Social Development Canada, Health Canada, etc.—to work on the response to the recommendations of CEDAW, the UN Committee on the Elimination of D

Status of Women committee  Can I add to that?

Status of Women committee  The wage gap at one point, when women were just entering the labour force, did decrease significantly. But now it's sort of stubbornly staying at approximately the same rate, depending on how you calculate it, whether it's full-time, part-time, the two combined, etc. It is a hard

Status of Women committee  As I believe the committee is aware, the government has committed to coming back with a proposal in 2018 on pay equity. Status of Women has been part of the analysis related to that file, including ensuring that people understand the difference between the wage gap and pay equity

Status of Women committee  We do have data. About 70% of part-time employment has consistently been by women, since data began being collected in 1997. While there are many reasons for working part-time, and sometimes the reason is choice, we do know that 37.8% of women working part-time indicated that the

Status of Women committee  At least in the last studies I looked at, I think the wage gap was worst in Alberta. This was before oil prices declined. As I mentioned before, it does tend to be worse in resource-intensive economies. I also don't have a study top of mind, but I'm sure that's information we w

Status of Women committee  We are exceedingly careful to explain which number we're using and how it's been calculated, because it is calculated very differently depending on what you're looking at. Even in my speaking points today I tried to be careful to make sure it was clear what we were speaking about

Status of Women committee  I'll try to answer that at a high level. As you've mentioned, women are participating more in STEM education, but resulting levels of employment in STEM are not reflective of their education rates. When they do get into the STEM field, they tend to stay in lower-paying jobs and