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Women in B.C. are earning on average almost 20 per cent less an hour than men, the largest gender pay gap in Canada.

A Statistics Canada report released Monday showed that, on average, Canadian women earned $4.13 or 13.3 per cent less than their male counterparts, with women in B.C. facing the largest gap, 18.9 per cent, followed by women in Alberta, 17.6 per cent. P.E.I. was the only province where there was no wage gap between the sexes.

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The report found that Canadian women aged 25-54 earned on average $26.92 an hour in 2018 while men earned on average $31.05, a difference of 13.3 per cent. In 1998, the difference was 18.8 per cent. The average wage for a man in B.C. in 2018 was $31.73 compared with $25.83 for a woman.

“Given that women in Canada have surpassed men in educational achievement, diversified their fields of study at post-secondary institutions and increased their representation in higher-status occupations, the persistence of gender-based wage inequality warrants continued attention,” the report states.