An NDP MHA is alarmed by a new report which found that Newfoundland and Labrador has the second-largest gender pay gap of all provinces in Canada.

The report, by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, found that women in this province had to work an additional 116 days to earn what a man made in 2026 – that makes June 12 their Equal Pay Day.

St. John’s East-Quidi Vidi MHA Sheilagh O’Leary is astounded that women in this province make only 76 cents for every dollar a man earns.

She notes that the report also mentions that the more education a woman has, the smaller the pay gap, and that there’s a wide gender pay gap in male-dominated occupations, and even in the female-dominated occupations a pay gap exists.

“One other layer that i think is extremely important is that racialized women and indigenous women face even higher discrepancies in earnings,” says O’Leary.