Inequality, as it relates to the workplace and workforce, refers to a state of being that involves the absence of opportunity, fairness and equality, along with the presence of extreme variability for a person or a group. This extreme variability in working conditions can lead to the development of strong feelings of insecurity in anyone who has experienced such inequality. Insecurity is a feeling or situation that people may experience in which there is uncertainty, instability, lack of safe working conditions and feelings of doubt about work, etc. It can be argued that inequality leads to insecurity or vice versa; where negative experiences, continuing for prolonged periods in the market, lead to another set of negative experiences for the groups in question. Taking a broad perspective on income inequality in Canada, we can see the difference between the top 10% of earners and the rest of the population. Most economic growth has gone to the top 10%. The richest 1% captured 12.2% of all income. All but the top 10% of Canadian families were working more hours than they did about 10 years ago, but incomes remained stagnant. This lack of growth has negatively affected the middle class. This squeeze has manifested itself in the form of 30 years of frozen wages, rising house prices, high debt, low savings, more precarious work, two income families and a decline in unionization rates of 8% over the last 10 years. Canada's poorest have fared much worse. Canada's poorest people also worked longer hours, but their earnings fell from about 15,000 in 1976 to 11,000 in 2006. (The Conference Board of Canada, 2011) To be more specific, we can divide the poor and disadvantaged into groups distinct. Women today earn approximately 72 cents for every...... middle of paper......original.htmThe Conference Board of Canada (2011). Hot topic: Canadian income inequality. Is Canada becoming more unequal? Ottawa, ON: AERIC Inc. Retrieved January 2012 from http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/canInequality.aspxThe Conference Board of Canada (2009). Society: gender income gap. Ottawa, ON: AERIC Inc. Retrieved January 2012 from http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/Details/society/gender-income-gap.aspxEhrenreich, B. (2005). Downward mobility and conclusions. In Bait and Switch. The (futile) search for the American dream (pp. 191-211; 213-237). New York: Henry Holt and Company.Galabuzi, G.-E. (2006). The economic exclusion of racialized communities: A statistical profile. Chapter 4 in Canadian Economic Apartheid: The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century (pp. 90-123). Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars Press.