Canadian women best their male counterparts in high school, college and university, but they fall starkly behind on the bottom line - in their paycheques. And the disparity looks even worse when compared with other developed countries.

The findings, contained in Education Indicators in Canada, a wide-ranging collection of data released by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, are partly the result of women often choosing less lucrative occupations than men - social work, say, as opposed to engineering - as well as entrenched biases in the workplace.

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