Gender and Sex Data Standard, published January of 2023
As we go towards acceptance of gender identities, how will our new understanding be reflected in research and statistics? How will this influence the gender wage gap, if at all? British Columbia published a standardized approach to this kind of research and statistical methods in 2023.
Definitions in the BC statistic gathering guide include male, female, intersex, and unknown for sex categories. For gender, it is male, female/woman, neither, and unknown.
Some statistics pre-dating this change of data gathering showed that transgender individuals earned less than their cisgender counterparts. This may bleed into the gender wage gap even more so as the number of male-to-female identifying transgender persons of working age is higher than female-to-male. With that said, though, nonbinary/other/neither is the largest of the categories.
How do you think the gender wage gap might differ as time progresses?
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/services-for-government-and-broader-public-sector/information-technology-services/standards-files/312_gender_and_sex_data_standard.pdf