CANADA: Gender gap in professor salaries revealed

Male professors at Canadian universities on average earn higher salaries than their female colleagues - with the discrepancy reaching more than $20,000 at some institutions - according to numbers released last week by Statistics Canada, reports Allison Cross for Postmedia News.

The average salary of a full-time, male teaching staff member at the University of Toronto, excluding medical and dental faculty members, is $20,362 higher than a female teaching staff member also working full time, says data from 2008 and 2009. The University of Calgary has the second-largest gap, with male teachers earning $20,147 more than female professors.

University officials said gender pay discrepancies were not a sign of bias but the result of former hiring practices that favoured men, the age and rank of professors and the distribution of men and women in different disciplines.
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