Women’s Wages and the attack on Broader Public Sector Workers

Since the Ford government came to power in 2018 there has been an attack on the wages of workers in the broader public sector. [...] The BPS is the portion of the public sector that is primarily funded by the provincial government. [...] Offered wages in the rest of the economy have increased much more quickly than they have in the hospital sector, and so it has become relatively less attractive to move into the hospital industry. [...] The health care and social assistance average wage as a percentage of the all- industries average wage declined in the late 1990s during the Harris PC government, then had a modest recovery over 2002-2011, and then declined further, with an especially sharp decline since 2017. [...] Women's average wage in health, social assistance and education as a percentage of the all industry male average wage 104.0% 102.8% 102.0% 100.0% 98.0% 96.0% 93.6% 94.0% 92.0% 90.0% 88.0% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 The good news is, despite the attack on women’s wage in these sectors during the Ford years, outside of these sectors women’s wages as a percentage of men’s wages have continued to i.