Canada added 21,000 jobs in September with a high employment rate for core-aged parents, Statistics Canada said on Friday.<\/p>\n
After dropping in August, employment was little changed in September with both full-time and part-time work holding steady, the national statistical agency said, adding that compared with May 2022, when employment last increased, there were 92,000 fewer people working in September.<\/p>\n
According to the agency, with most Covid-19-related public health measures lifted and as parents and children started to settle back into the school routine in September, the employment rate of core-aged mothers with at least one child under 18 was 79.9 percent, its highest level for September since 1976, and up 2.1 percentage points compared with September 2019.<\/p>\n
The employment rate of fathers in the same age group was 93.5 percent, the highest level for the month of September since 1981, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Despite their record-high employment rate, women were more likely than men to have taken career or job-related decisions that prioritized childcare responsibilities.<\/p>\n
According to figures from the Labour Force Survey for the week of Sept. 11-17, 14.9 percent of core-aged mothers with a child under 16 were twice as likely to have decided not to apply for a job or a promotion over the previous 12 months than their male counterparts (7.1 percent).<\/p>\n
In addition, 7.6 percent of mothers turned down a job offer over the previous year due to childcare responsibilities, compared with 4 percent of fathers. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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