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Chart 3
In the early 1900s, women earned just over half of what men earned

Census years	Average weekly earnings
	Men	Women
	in current dollars
1911	13.50	7.12
1921	23.55	12.98
1931	22.25	12.07
1941	23.39	12.27
Source: Dominion Bureau of Statistics, censuses of population compiled by the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project.