Oxfam Canada and World Population

income inequality: The richest 62 people on earth own more than half the world population does Stubborn wage gap for world women persists The report, titled Making Women Count, looked at income inequality since the global recession that began in 2008, with a specific focus on how women are faring in Canada and around the world, according to CBC. Wage gap now at 72% While there are pockets of progress, on the whole, the report does not paint an encouraging picture. That just one of the findings of the wide-ranging report from Oxfam Canada and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In 2009, women in Canada earned on average 74.4 per cent of what men earned. Doubters of the gender wage gap often argue that women earn less than men mainly because they work fewer hours, as a group, than men do. In 2010, it was 73.6 per cent, and in 2011, it was 72 per cent, roughly where it remains today. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.