Table 1
Discrimination experienced by students based on gender, gender identity or sexual orientation in a postsecondary setting in the past 12 months, by type of behaviour, provinces, 2019
men | women | |
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% | % | |
Suggestions that they don't act like a man or woman is supposed to act | 12.0 | 15.6 |
Comments that they are not good at or should be prevented from being in a particular program because of their gender | 1.6 | 8.8 |
Being insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded because of their gender | 2.2 | 8.5 |
Being insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded because of their sexual orientation or assumed sexual orientation | 1.9 | 2.6 |
Being insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded because they are, or are assumed to be, transgender | 0.5 | 0.6 |
Note(s):
The categories "women" and "men" include cisgender and transgender women and men. Each number for women is statistically different from the corresponding number for men, with the exception of "being insulted, mistreated, ignored or excluded because they are, or are assumed to be, transgender."
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Survey on Individual Safety in the Postsecondary Student Population.
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