TORONTO – A new report shows women, people of color and immigrants in Canada’s tech sector saw employment and pay inequities persist — and in some cases, worsen — between 2001 and 2016.
The research from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship at Toronto Metropolitan University shows women were increasingly excluded from tech work throughout that period.
A woman had a 6.29 percent chance of being a tech worker in 2001, but by 2016, that had fallen to 4.91 percent.
Meanwhile, men had a 20 percent chance of being a tech worker, which remained unchanged between 2001 and 2016.
Over the same time span, researchers found men made an average of $3.49 more per hour than women and that identifying as a visible minority lowered one’s pay by an average of $3.89 per hour.
Researchers also observed no pay gap between immigrant and non-immigrant tech workers in 2001, but by 2016, a gap of roughly $5.70 per hour emerged.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 1, 2022.
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