Oxfam Canada

women: Wage gap now at 72% While there are pockets of progress, on the whole, the report does not paint an encouraging picture, according to Huffington Post Canada. In 2009, women in Canada earned on average 74.4 per cent of what men earned. That just one of the findings of the wide-ranging report from Oxfam Canada and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 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. In 2010, it was 73.6 per cent, and in 2011, it was 72 per cent, roughly where it remains today. But Monday report says the data doesn't back that up. "The gap in men and women incomes is not simply the result of women working fewer hours," the report said. "Nor is it the result of different levels of education and experience. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.