The study's authors used publicly available data to examine the relationship between the proportion of women in a specialty and average earnings across Canada.

Pay transparency may also be taking a hit because of the pandemic.

“The closer women get to closing the gender gap, it seems the greater the barriers become to achieving equality.”

Hopefully, they can look back on this story in 10 years' time and see how their lives as women have changed, for better or for worse.

The collective bargaining agreements showed a disparity in bonuses but also highlighted the different pay structures between the U.S. men's and women's teams.

The Brier (Canada's men's curling championship) and the Tournament of Hearts (the national women's championship) will offer total purses of $300,000 to the competing teams.

In the match against equal pay in sports, Australia's women soccer team is taking home a victory. 

That means that women earned roughly 87 cents for every dollar earned by men.

The study found that overall, women make 24 per cent less per hour while operating, a gap linked to the types of surgeries they typically perform.

In some workplaces, maternity or parental leave might be frowned upon, research has found.