Canada’s Gender Wage Gap Is Even Bigger for White-Collar Freelancers - The Tyee
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Listen to this article 7 min Canada’s gender wage gap — the difference in average earnings between men and women — is well documented. But that gap is even bigger for white-collar freelancers, a new report suggests. Financial technology company Remitly used data from the freelance networking platform Upwork to compare the rates of more than 58,000 freelancers across the world. In a report published in May, the company identified a 19 per cent gap between the freelance rates charged by women and those charged by men. In Canada, women’s average hourly freelance rates were 16.2 per cent less than…
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