Progress has been slow in getting more women to Canada's top corporate ranks
Mirjam Guesgen of the Financial Post reports that while the number of women in leadership positions in Canadian business is on the rise, progress has been somewhat slow. The majority of boards across Canada are still comprised solely of men, with the education sector the only one to have achieved gender parity on its boards. The latest data available from Statistics Canada shows that women made up about 31.4 per cent of officer positions in 2020, up only marginally from 29 per cent four years earlier. And while the wage gap between men and women has been closing, it still stood at 12 per cent in 2022.
