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Women’s work in Canada is either unpaid work in the home, low-paid wage labor, or both. It is a fairly well-known fact that women in the labor force earn on the average only 60% of what men earn and that the dollar gap between their average earnings is increasing.1 This disparity is not a new phenomenon; women in the Canadian labor force have always received lower wages than men for comparable work.
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Connelly, M.P. (1982). Women Workers and The Family Wage in Canada. In: Hoiberg, A. (eds) Women and the World of Work. Nato Conference Series, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3482-8_15
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