Trans And Non-Binary Workers Are Worse Off Than Cis Peers

Trans And Non-Binary Workers Are Worse Off Than Cis Peers

Last month, Statistics Canada released an interesting study examining poverty and earnings among gender-diverse populations that seems to have gone largely ignored. The article, “Socioeconomic outcomes of transgender and non-binary people in Canada,” uses 2021 Census data to compare the poverty rates and earnings of transgender men, transgender women and non-binary people to cisgender men and women. Overall, the findings paint a troubling pictur…

Beyond the Gender Binary: Wage Inequality and Occupational Segregation among Transgender and Nonbinary Workers

This study examines labor market disparities across gender identities in Canada using data from the 2021 Canadian Census, the first national census to identify transgender and nonbinary individuals. We analyze employment probabilities, work hours, and hourly wages among six gender groups: cisg...