Number of years since Canadian women first demanded equal pay
102
Average earned by Canadian women in 2006 for every dollar their male counterparts make
71 cents
Average amount of pension received by Canadian women for every dollar in pension received by their male counterparts due to lifetime inequity in pay
64 cents
Amount earned by an Aboriginal woman in Canadain 2006 compared to every dollar earned by the rest of the population
46 cents
Number of years since Canadaofficially guaranteed pay equity as a fundamental human right
32
Number of days following Barack Obama’s inauguration as U.S. President before signing the Fair Pay Act which removes and important obstacle to pay equity claims
9
Number of days the Pay Equity Task Force Report, commissioned by the federal government to address Canadian obstacles to pay equity, has sat on the shelf
1863 and counting (as of June 16, 2009)
Number of years it took to settle the Bell Canada pay equity case due to fierce opposition on the part of the employer
14
Percent of private employers in Québec who said that they would never have made pay equity happen without provincial proactive pay equity legislation
82
Percent of Québec businesses where the total cost of implementing pay equity was $5000 or less
70
Estimated average amount in dollars that Canada Post has spent per year fighting its pay equity case
2 million
Number of years the Canada Post pay equity case has lasted
26 and counting
Number of women working in Canada
7.2 million
Average wage in Canadain 2000 for a full-time full-year female worker
34,892
Average wage in Canadain 2000 for a full-time full-year male worker
49,224
Amount of lost wages this gap translates to 50 years of full-time work
716,600
Amount in dollars of Canada’s surplus when the Harper government was elected in 2006
26 billion
Amount in dollars of Canada’s surplus after three years of the Harper government
-1.1 billion
Amount of projected deficit for 2009
Over 50 billion
Number of working women who will benefit from the reforms introduced by Harper’s Public Service Equitable Compensation Act
0
Amount the Conservatives are supposed to be saving taxpayers by rolling back pay equity rights for women
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Canadian women have done the math, Mr Harper.