Dimensions of Inequality in Canada (review)

• Published in: Canadian Ethnic Studies Vol. 39; no. 1-2; pp. 239 - 241
• Main Author: Kovacs, Zoltan B
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Calgary Canadian Ethnic Studies Association 2007; Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
• Subjects: Children; Community Programs; Data Analysis; Earnings; Employment Level; Ethnicity; Families & family life; Family Income; Females; Green, David A; Heads of Households; Homogamy; Households; Human Capital; Income inequality; Kesselman, Jonathan R; Labor; Leisure Time; Males; Marital Status; Nonfiction; One Parent Family; Parent-child relations; Parents & parenting; Sex roles; Single fathers; Single mothers; Single parent family; Social sciences; Wives; Women; Working women; Canada

The most significant changes in earnings inequality in Canada has been in the economic progress of women. Women's real earnings increased significantly during the 1990s while men's earnings were declining (307). Over the last two decades "male earnings inequality increased more than f...