Sarah Kaplan speaks to Global News about the gender wage gap.  “Sarah Kaplan, professor at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto and director of the school’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, said she thinks the gender gap identified by the study mainly boils down to men and women taking on different jobs — rather than a case of women being shortchanged for doing the same work as men. “The story is that women are being segregated through a whole series of social processes … into jobs that just pay less,” she said. “And so that most of what we’re seeing is people going into different sectors.” Within industries, she added, women are also being funnelled into lower-paying positions with fewer opportunities for advancement.

“Even when male and female graduates both go into the tech sector, women are often segmented off into the marketing part of the tech sector, or they do user interface. They aren’t given opportunities in the core coding jobs,” she said.