Gender Differences and Income Inequality

In the Columbia Basin-Boundary region, earnings were generally lower than the Canadian average, but the earnings gap is bigger. The average male earns $50,208, while the average female earns $29,975 – an earnings gap of $20,233. There is a far higher proportion of females earning low incomes than males and there is a far higher proportion of males earning high incomes than females. This pattern is comparable to typical resource based economies, where the male tends to be the person who earns money to support a family, while the women focus on caring for children.

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