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Our newest fact sheet on women's employment shows that poverty among newer immigrants is increasing, even while their education is increasing. Some statistics include:

• 18% of immigrant women have a university degree, in comparison with 14% of Canadian-born women.
  
  
• In 2001, immigrant women had an unemployment rate of 8.1%, compared 7% with Canadian-born women, and 6.8% for immigrant men.
  
  
• Newer immigrants of both sexes are facing greater difficulties getting work and securing stable, well-paying positions than previous generations of immigrants and unemployment rates among ethno-racial groups vary dramatically, from as high as 35% to as low as 2.5%.
  
  
• Recent immigrant women earn significantly less than other women and men, averaging just $16,700 – well below the poverty line.

View or download the fact sheet on ACTEW's Putting Women in the Picture web site:
http://www.actew.org/projects/pwpsite/snapshots/immigrant.html.
We welcome any leads on further research related to immigrant women's employment issues.

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