Alberta has nation's biggest wage gap for women, report says

[mentalfloss]

Alberta has nation's biggest wage gap for women, report says

Alberta’s change to a flat-rate income tax in 2001 helped create the largest wage gap between men and women in Canada, according to a new report on gender wage and economic parity.

The report, published by the University of Alberta think tank The Parkland Institute, validates what Chelsey Hesketh has long suspected.

‘If you’re not working in the oilpatch, you just have an ordinary job, it’s just difficult to live in general,” said Hesketh, 26, who works as a massage therapist while her husband brings home the bigger paycheque as a scaffolder.

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http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/edm...gest-wage-gap-for-women-report-says-1.2982145

 

[Spade]

The Alberta premier suggested women (AKA the public service: teachers, provincial department support staff, and so on) should accept a 5% rollback in salaries to help make up the royalty shortfall The gap increases...

 

[captain morgan]

The Alberta premier suggested women (AKA the public service: teachers, provincial department support staff, and so on) should accept a 5% rollback in salaries to help make up the royalty shortfall The gap increases...

Wow, that's quite a message, Prentice specifically targeting female teachers and female provincial employees for a 5% rollback while not reducing the pay of the male teachers and male prov employees.

He sure has a lot of balls

 

[Spade]

Of course male teachers will have to accept the 5% rollback too. That's the price they'll pay for getting a job in a female profession.

http://education.alberta.ca/media/6850185/transformation-in-progress-february-2013-final.pdf

Quote:
"The current education workforce has high ratio of females to males. 71% of the workforce is female while only 29% is male."

 

[captain morgan]

Of course male teachers will have to accept the 5% rollback too. That's the price they'll pay for getting a job in a female profession.

That pretty sexist of you to make that determination

http://education.alberta.ca/media/6850185/transformation-in-progress-february-2013-final.pdf

Quote:
"The current education workforce has high ratio of females to males. 71% of the workforce is female while only 29% is male."

They should pass legislation forcing more men and fewer women to be teachers.

That will solve this most upsetting sexist policy that Prentice has tabled

 

[Cannuck]

According to the Fraser Institute, public sector wages in Alberta are 6.9% higher than the private sector so a 5.0 % rollback would seem reasonable. I'm not convinced their methodology is accurate. I know in my particular field, there is far better money to be had in the private sector.

 

[Spade]

That pretty sexist of you to make that determination


They should pass legislation forcing more men and fewer women to be teachers.

That will solve this most upsetting sexist policy that Prentice has tabled

Diluting the education profession's talent pool by mandating more males through a quota system is counterproductive; Alberta needs the best teachers possible.

By the way, I'm not being sexist. I am an honest purveyor of reality. After all "reality" is one of the Four Noble Truths.

 

[Cliffy]

Diluting the education profession's talent pool by mandating more males through a quota system is counterproductive; Alberta needs the best teachers possible.

By the way, I'm not being sexist. I am an honest purveyor of reality. After all "reality" is one of the Four Noble Truths.

Capt. Rummy wouldn't be familiar with those. He only know deflection and strawman nonsense

 

[EagleSmack]

Diluting the education profession's talent pool by mandating more males through a quota system is counterproductive; Alberta needs the best teachers possible.

By the way, I'm not being sexist. I am an honest purveyor of reality. After all "reality" is one of the Four Noble Truths.

Welcome!

 

[captain morgan]

Capt. Rummy wouldn't be familiar with those. He only know deflection and strawman nonsense

Poor ole Cliff... You wanna the cryin towel to help ease your suffering?

 

[eh1eh]

lol. No mystery. It's where the biggest conservatives live. Makes perfect sense.

 

[Cannuck]

Diluting the education profession's talent pool by mandating more males through a quota system is counterproductive; Alberta needs the best teachers possible.

By the way, I'm not being sexist. I am an honest purveyor of reality. After all "reality" is one of the Four Noble Truths.

Canada is one of the top places to invest in and one of the reasons is because of our highly educated work force. We must be doing something right.

 

[mentalfloss]

According to the Fraser Institute, public sector wages in Alberta are 6.9% higher than the private sector so a 5.0 % rollback would seem reasonable. I'm not convinced their methodology is accurate. I know in my particular field, there is far better money to be had in the private sector.

I wouldn't be surprised.

In the private sector, those who are entitled to their entitlements will squeeze every last drop from everyone else.

 

[personal touch]

Private sector has so many perks,and so many more opportunities.