TY - JOUR AU - Smith-Carrier, Tracy AU - Penner, Marcie AU - Cecala, Aaron AU - Agócs, Carol PY - 2021/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - It’s Not Just a Pay Gap: Quantifying the Gender Wage and Pension Gap at a Post-Secondary Institution in Canada JF - Canadian Journal of Higher Education JA - CJHE VL - 51 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.47678/cjhe.vi0.189215 UR - https://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/article/view/189215 SP - 74-84 AB - <p>What is the impact of the gender pay gap in academia over the course of a career and retirement? To quantify this impact, we used a Canadian post-secondary institution as a case study and simulated the effects of the reported difference in salary across multiple academic career trajectories. A starting wage gap of less than $9,000 resulted in a $300,000–$400,000 gender wage gap over the course of a career, and a further $148,000–$259,000 gender pension gap, for a total gender pension and wage gap of $454,000–$660,000, depending on the rank achieved. Thus, focusing on gender gaps in salary alone leads to a substantial underestimation of the long-term effects of the gender gap.</p> ER -