Male university graduates in Canada earn 44 per cent more than their female counterparts, according to a study from researchers at the University of Ottawa.

A from 14 Canadian colleges and universities found that men earn at least two-fifths more than women eight years after graduating.?

The study, ¡°Barista or better? New evidence on the earnings of post-secondary education graduates¡±, which was conducted in partnership with Statistics Canada, tracked the annual income of graduates between 2005 and 2013.

The UK¡¯s latest?Destinations of Leavers from ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ survey?also found that women fared significantly worse than men when it came to earnings, with mean salaries of ?21,000 and ?24,000 respectively.

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The Canadian study found that in general graduates earned more than non-graduates, with those holding a bachelor¡¯s degree receiving on average C$4,200 (?2,400) more a year.

Furthermore, each new wave of graduates earned on average C$2,400 more than the graduates the year before, according to the Toronto Star. While those who graduated in 2009 ¨C the year following the global financial crisis ¨C earned about C$3,400, or 7.7 per cent, less than the previous year¡¯s graduates, by 2011 graduate earnings had bounced back to pre-2008 levels, the report found.

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The study revealed that engineers, nurses and computer scientists earn the most, with an annual income between C$50,000 to C$60,000 a year straight after leaving university, while engineers can make C$99,000 annually within eight years. In comparison, those with humanities degrees earned C$57,000 on average after eight years.

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