Research & Reports

What Women Are Up Against At Work

For the last two years, LeanIn.Org and SurveyMonkey have partnered to understand better what men and women are experiencing in the workplace. Here’s what we learned....

Lean In | May 17, 2019 View report

Lightening the Mental Load That Holds Women Back

Women are too often the manager of household chores and it limits their ability to focus on their careers and rise into leadership roles....

BCG | April 23, 2019 View report

The Design of Everyday Men

Why haven’t we cracked the code yet on gender equality in leadership? Deloitte set out to reframe the issue starting from an unlikely source: the perspective of men....

Deloitte | April 11, 2019 View report

Better Together: Increasing Male Engagement in Gender Equality Efforts in Australia

"Lower engagement from men hinders gender equality initiatives in the workplace. Bain Partner Chio Verastegui identifies five themes that can spur action in Australian organizations and individuals, making the gender equality movement more gender equal itself."...

Bain & Company | March 19, 2019 View report

The Face of Leadership: 2018 BC Scorecard

"This report is the fourth instalment of the Face of Leadership™ BC Scorecard, an annual report that gives an updated snapshot on the representation of women and Indigenous women on corporate boards and in senior executive leadership in BC’s leading companies."...

Minerva | March 08, 2019 View report

The Call to Act: Women in Alternative Investments - 6th Edition

"KPMG's Women in Alternative Investments (WAI) Report spotlights the bold practices of investors and firms that seek to drive meaningful change in gender diversity. This Report is valuable for investors, firm leaders, diversity and human resources personnel and other change agents who want to improve diversity within alternative investments."...

KPMG | February 05, 2019 View report

Who are the Working Women in Canada’s Top 1%

"Despite notable advancements in education and labour force participation over the last half century, women continue to be less represented relative to men among top income groups, accounting for one in five workers in Canada’s top 1% in 2015. This paper fills an important information gap by providing a gender-based analysis of key socio-demographic and employment characteristics of working women ...

Statistics Canada | January 19, 2019 View report

Risk, Resilience, Reward: 2019 KPMG Women's Leadership Study

"According to the latest Women’s Leadership Study from KPMG, seven in ten women (69%) are open to taking small risks to further their career, but far fewer (43%) are open to taking the bigger risks associated with career advancement. These results suggest that women looking to move into leadership positions in today’s business world may benefit by taking more risks over the course of their career...

KPMG | January 18, 2019 View report

Missing Pieces Report: The 2018 Board Diversity Census of Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards

"This multiyear study published by the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD), provides powerful metrics on the slow change of diversity in the boardroom, and may help encourage corporate boards to continue to embrace the benefits of diverse board composition. Though still a slow pace in relation to the rapidly shifting demographics in the US, the shifts point towards greater diversity in America’s bo...

Deloitte | January 16, 2019 View report

Mint Condition: CEO Pay in Canada

"This annual report tracking CEO pay is now in its twelfth year. These reports have consistently followed the average pay of the top 100 highest-paid CEOs from companies on Canada’s S&P/ TSX Composite, the largest 260-odd publicly traded companies in Canada. The report finds that extreme bonus pay observed at the CEO level is also driving a yawning gender pay gap between the top male and female ex...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | January 02, 2019 View report

Global Gender Gap Report 2018

"The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress over time. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, education, health and political criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups."...

World Economic Forum | December 17, 2018 View report

Study: Harassment in Canadian Workplaces, 2016

"In Canada, 19% of women and 13% of men aged 15 to 64 reported that they experienced at least one type of harassment in the workplace in the past 12 months. More particularly, about 4% of women and less than 1% of men reported having experienced sexual harassment or unwanted sexual attention in the workplace." Read more about the prevalence, type, and sources of workplace harassment among Canadian...

Statistics Canada | December 17, 2018 View report

2018 Global Board Diversity Tracker: Who's Really On Board?

In 2018, Egon Zehnder surveyed large company boards across 44 countries to go beyond the numbers and look at who really serves on these boards. A summary of their findings: 84.9% of large company boards across 44 countries included at least one woman among their directors; 20.4% of all directors in the countries studied are women — up from 13.6% six years ago; and women hold only 20.4% of boardro...

Egon Zehnder | December 11, 2018 View report

Factsheet: Asking for Salary History Perpetuates Pay Discrimination From Job to Job

"Employers’ requests for an applicant’s salary history in the hiring process, and reliance on that information to determine compensation, forces women and, especially women of color, to carry lower earnings and pay discrimination with them from job to job. As a result, several federal courts and an increasing number of cities and states are prohibiting employers from basing compensation on an empl...

National Women's Law Centre | December 03, 2018 View report

Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics

The Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics page is a resource hub for stats regarding gender and D&I within all sectors in Canada. Topics include: Business performance and ownership; Labour; Population & demographics; Science & technology; and Income, pensions, spending and wealth....

Statistics Canada | December 01, 2018 View report

Global Wage Report 2018/19 - What Lies Behind Gender Pay Gaps

"This year’s ILO Global Wage Report – the sixth of its series – provides a detailed examination of gender pay inequalities so as to better understand the gender pay gap as a form of unacceptable inequality in the world of work. The second part of this year’s report is devoted to the gender pay gap: first providing a critical assessment of the standard measures commonly used to estimate gender pay ...

International Labour Organization (ILO) | November 26, 2018 View report

FTSE Women Leaders: Improving Gender Balance in FTSE Leadership

"The Hampton-Alexander Review, an independent, business-led initiative supported by Government, builds on the success of its predecessor, the Davies Review. In 2016 the Review set five key Recommendations aimed at increasing the number of women in leadership positions of FTSE 350 companies. This third annual report assesses progress, shines a spotlight on emerging best practice and current challen...

Hampton-Alexander Review | November 14, 2018 View report

Why Aren’t U.S. Workers Working?

"This report shows how labor force participation rates have diverged for men and women in the US and Canada. It finds that 3/4 of the difference in participation between the two countries can be explained by the growing gap in labor force attachment of women. It discusses how employment and social policies in Canada have made it easier for women to remain in the labor force while raising children....

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | November 13, 2018 View report

Four for Women: A Framework for Evaluating Companies’ Impact on the Women They Employ

"This report is a summary of extensive academic research. It is a framework that we hope will help investors, employees, employers, customers, and other interested individuals understand, assess, and explore what it is to be a good employer for women.It is a suggestion of key outcomes to track and assess a company's impact on the women it employs."...

Wharton Social Impact Initiative | November 01, 2018 View report

Advancing Women as Leaders in the Private Sector

The final pillar of the 5 part inquisition into the status of women in business in the U.S. and Canada, this report begins by taking inventory on the status of gender representation in both the TSX & S&P. The report then identifies 5 key elements of a strategy for achieving gender diversity in leadership: A business priority & leadership commitment; Holding leaders accountable; Capturing data & me...

Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders | October 29, 2018 View report

Pay Equity Consultations What We Heard Report

In October 2016, the Government of Canada made a commitment to table new, pay equity legislation until the end of 2018. In research for this legislation, the government surveyed over 40 stakeholders who broadly supported the principle of pay equity. This report is a compilation of the responses gathered, reflecting the current attitudes and statistics regarding equal pay in Canada....

Employment and Social Development Canada | October 25, 2018 View report