The wage gap for women in Canada's tech sector is only getting worse: report

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A new report has found the pay gap between women in men in Canada's tech industry is only getting bigger.

The wage gap between women and men in Canada's tech sector has tripled over the course of five years, a new report shows.A new report has found the pay gap between women in men in Canada's tech industry is only getting bigger. When Viet Vu first calculated the gender pay gap for women in the Canadian tech industry, he was blown away.

The findings did not come as a shock to Saadia Muzaffar, founder of TGC, a Canadian non-profit that advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics . By accountability measures, she means things like pay transparency, and strategies that focus not not just on hiring underrepresented people, but also keeping them around — and promoting them.

With tech incubators bringing investment and inspiration, Black entrepreneurs feel they can 'change the world'The report defines "visible minority identities" as South Asian, Chinese, Black, Filipino, Arab, Latin American, Southeast Asian, West Asian, Korean, and Japanese.

 

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