Timeline Category: Employment

  • Office of Employment Equity established

    Employment Equity at York is now guided by the EDI Program Manager in the Division of Equity, People & Culture.

  • YUSA Pay Equity

    From staff member: As a YUSA staff member I voted to strike and walk the picket lines in 1984. My reason for striking was to support the fight for pay equity. At the time it was important for me to see York lead the stage for pay equity.

  • YUFA Pay Equity

    From a current faculty member: Still the longest in the history of anglophone higher education in Canada, for 8 weeks in spring of 1997—before that, the average pay of women faculty at York (including me) was significantly lower than that of male professors with equivalent qualifications.

  • York begins offering same-sex partner benefits

    Six years before provincial law; second university in Canada to do so.