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With International Women’s Day over for another year, perhaps now we can have an informed discussion about some gender inequities that really ought to matter to Canadians.

It’s become commonplace for March 8 to precipitate widespread outrage over gender wage gaps. “Women’s work is never valued equal to men’s,” one angry feminist claimed in a column in the Hamilton Spectator recently. “Patriarchal attitudes are informed by the underlying belief that men are superior to women.”

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Complaints also abound this time of year about insufficient female representation at the corporate level, on boards and in executive positions, as well as in politics.

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International Women’s Day has thus become an event in which everyone seems to agree that men are actively conspiring to make life miserable for women. But while there’s no denying the facts on disparities in earnings and executive appointments, they don’t tell the whole story.