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History of Pay Gap

100

What is Pay Equity?

(A) All employees must receive proper compensation for work performed.

(B) Equal pay for work of equal value.

(C) Equal pay for equal work.

(D) Employers should help their employees determine their home equity.

200

In the late eighties, Canada introduced legislation to ensure pay equity. At this time, what was the gender wage gap?

(A) There was no gap, Canada just wanted to ensure it stayed that way.

(B) Approximately 36%

(C) Approximately 50%

(D) Women were actually making more than men, and pay equity was put in place to curb women’s wage increase.

300

In Canada how did each province step up to dealing with pay inequality?

(A) All provinces passed identical pay equity laws.

(B) All provinces put in place pay equity guidelines only.

(C) All provinces passed laws except BC, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland, which enacted policies instead. Alberta put forth neither laws nor policies.

(D) Only Alberta passed pay equity laws.

400

What tools have provinces without pay equity laws used?

(A) Human rights legislation regarding discrimination and provincial Pay Equity Policy Frameworks.

(B) Unfortunately there is no way for these provinces to ensure equal pay.

(C) Employees in these provinces have to appeal gender discrimination directly to the crown.

(D) Employees in these provinces must sue their employers if they are being discriminated against.

500

Since the introduction of pay equity legislation in Canada in the late eighties, how much has the gender wage gap shrunk?

(A) It has not shrunk.

(B) Approximately 10%.

(C) Approximately 30%.

(D) There is no longer a gender wage gap.

Current Pay Gap

100

What is the average retirement age for women in Canada today?

(A) Age 20-25

(B) Age 26-30

(C) Age 31-37

(D) Age 40-49

200

The gender wage gaps in provinces such as Ontario and B.C. have gradually minimized over the last 2 decades in Canada, how much percentage has shrunk in Alberta?

(A) It has not shrunk.

(B) It has shrunk by 2%.

(C) It has shrunk by 10%.

(D) Alberta is the second gender wage equal province in Canada.

300

Is there a wage gap for well-educated women in top positions?

(A) There is no gender wage gap for well-educated women in top positions.

(B) Well-educated women in top positions earn less than men of the same job.

(C) Well-educated women in top positions earn more than men of the same job.

(D) No, because the wage gap isn't real.

400

Who earns more in recent years?

(A) Married women with children.

(B) lone women with children.

(C) Unmarried & childless women.

(D) Unmarried & childless men.

500

How many years will it take women to get equal pay?

(A) 35 years

(B) 52years

(C) 83years

(D) 118years

Different Roles

100

Women earn less than men in any field of work.

True or False

200

Women and men earn higher wages in their own typically female- or male-dominated fields of work respectively.

True or False

300

Female and Male Computer Repair Technicians make a median annual salary of:

(A) $30, 100 and $31, 500

(B) $30, 500 and $32, 500

(C) $31, 500 and $31, 500

(D) $32, 500 and $31, 500

400

Male Systems Engineers earn an average annual salary of $71, 500.

A female Systems Engineer of the same caliber can earn an average annual salary of:

(A) $61, 400

(B) $66, 000

(C) $71, 500

(D) $72, 300

500

Women earn more than men (on average) in these jobs:

(A) Directors and Counsellors.

(B) Computer-related Engineers and Pharmacists.

(C) Physicians/Surgeons and Social Workers.

(D) Office Clerks and Videographers.

Ways of Change

100

Which of the following statements do NOT correctly reflect how women have progressed to narrow the working pay gap today?

(A) A long-term analysis of the gender gap between men and women in 145 countries globally shows only a 4% improvement over the past decade, suggesting progress for women is moving slowly and even worsening in some countries.

(B) The economic gender gap is due to a lack of qualifications.

(C) Women have increased their representation in several professional fields in recent years.

(D) An increasing number of women are self-employed.

200

If we are to change the ways women are represented and participate in the workforce, which of the following policies would we need to support?

(A) We should completely and willfully entrust total economic dependency upon men.

(B) Support policies like the Pay Equity Act in Ontario.

(C) There needs to be less gender-based analysis of economic and social policies and more studies proving why Ted Cruz is The Zodiac Killer.

(D) Decrease in union membership.

300

Which social movements have contributed to the efforts for pay equity?

(A) The women’s movement.

(B) The anti-GMO movement.

(C) Men's rights activists raising and debating issues about pay equity for women. #NotAllMen

(D) Increased federal minimum wage instated by the government.

400

Why do companies with higher numbers of female board members perform better financially?

(A) On the contrary, research shows that companies with more women in corporate officer positions and on boards of directors, on average, do not perform well.

(B) It’s not about who is seated in the boardrooms that make the company perform better--it’s the head of the companies, generally a man, who determine whether a company does well or not.

(C) Having different perspectives around the table makes good business sense. Diverse teams of gender and race support innovation and can help companies mirror and serve a diverse marketplace.

(D) What a man can do, a woman can do better.

500

Which of the following are persistent misconceptions that have stalled the discussion and movements of change for pay equity?

(A) Restrictions on women's access to and participation in the workforce include the glass ceiling, minimal equal opportunity laws, legal and cultural restrictions on access to education and jobs, and unequal access to capital.

(B) Any wage gap is due to personal decisions made by men and women rather than institutionalized problems. Men are simply drawn to higher paying jobs (e.g. engineering), while women feel more comfortable taking lower paying jobs (e.g. education, health care).

(C) Women have made it and the playing field has levelled.

(D) B and C are both correct.