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Canadian farm gender pay gap still wide but narrowing

Dec. 13, 2023 – A recent Agriculture–Population Linkage study from Statistics Canada, which combines data from the Census of Agriculture and the Census of Population, highlights the trend. In 2020, the gap was nearly equal to the national average for all Canadians aged 16 and over. Different farm types also show varying gaps, with the smallest gap in dairy cattle and milk farms at 5.7 per cent, and the largest in greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture farms at 38.3 per cent. Farms.com reports. |READ MORE