When it comes to obtaining higher education, women are continuing to outpace men, while newcomers are arriving in Canada with more post-secondary experience than the average person who was born here.
According to the latest figures released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, women ages 25-64 now hold 54 per cent of all university degrees, and 60 per cent of the degrees among young adults.
But research has shown that while more women are graduating from post-secondary institutions, they remain underrepresented at the highest levels in business and continue to face pay equity issues.
Meanwhile, the Statistics Canada data suggests that immigrants comprise just one-quarter of Canada’s total adult population but account for more than one-third of all adults with a university degree.
What’s more difficult to extrapolate from the 2011 National Household Survey, however, is whether immigrants and women with degrees are actually working in their respective fields, whether they’re climbing the corporate corporate ladder and whether they’re being compensated appropriately.
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