Women's representation in the university sector in Canada has significantly increased over the past several decades. However, despite these gains and the fact that women comprise the majority of university graduates, women are still underrepresented in academia.
This article looks at more than 50 years of data to document how women's representation in full-time faculty positions at Canadian universities has evolved over time. It also explores gender differences in salaries (the gender "pay gap") and highlights the extent to which women continue to be underpaid relative to men.
This analysis is based on detailed computations from Statistics Canada's University and College Academic Staff System (UCASS) dataset, from 1970 to 2022. The UCASS collects anonymized, national comparable data on the number and socioeconomic characteristics of full-time academic teaching staff at Canadian universities produced from administrative payroll data.
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