Type: Annual report
Publication date: May 2025
Author: UBC Equity & Inclusion Office
Overview
UBC’s Employment Equity Report (EER) supports university’s continued reporting of Employment Equity Survey results to better understand where disparities in proportional representation may exist and inform the progress and implementation of the 2019 Employment Equity Plan (EEP).
The EEP identifies several objectives designed to address hiring and promotion and eliminate disparities across designated groups. This report is produced annually and provides an update for both UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan campuses.
Data presented in this report is based on an October 31st, 2024 snapshot of Employment Equity Survey data.
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2024 Employment Equity Report key results
The 2024 survey results show that the representation of employees from designated groups at UBC is generally on par with their representation in the regional workforce, and that there is representation of all designated groups among UBC’s broader executive senior leadership group. Overall representation of groups amongst tenure stream faculty and sessional instructors and lecturers also exceeds provincial and national workforce comparators.
However, data also reveals significant gaps in representation across all occupational categories when compared to regional, provincial and national comparator data, including amongst staff who self-identify as women, Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, and people with disabilities. The data also show that the levels of representation of designated groups among UBC faculty and staff are mixed – representation of some designated groups is low in mid-to-senior level ranks or decreases as rank increases.
Detailed findings
- Women in leadership: Women are represented in 56.6 per cent of faculty and staff roles at UBC Vancouver and 59.9 per cent of roles at UBC Okanagan, with leadership representation exceeding provincial and national averages. However, gaps remain in faculty, senior professional and supervisory roles.
- Indigenous representation: While UBC Okanagan (5.2 per cent) exceeds workforce benchmarks, UBC Vancouver (2.1 per cent) remains below national and provincial averages, with notable gaps across faculty and senior leadership, and all occupational groups.
- Racialized employees: Representation at UBC Vancouver (39.8 per cent) surpasses national and provincial levels but falls short of regional comparators at UBCV and provincial comparators at UBCO. UBC Okanagan (22.5 per cent) lags in several occupational categories, and across both campuses there are significant gaps in representation of racialized groups in the faculty bargaining unit and more than half other occupational categories.
- People with disabilities: While UBC Okanagan (11.8 per cent) aligns with workforce data, UBC Vancouver (9.3 per cent) reports lower representation. While the representation of disabled people among UBC’s executive groups is aligned with provincial and national workforce data, there are significant gaps in the representation of disabled clinical faculty at UBCV and across at least half of the occupational group categories on both campuses.
- Non-binary, transgender, and 2SLGBQIA+ employees: There is no comparable data collected by the government for these designated groups. Representation of non-binary employees, employees with trans experience, and 2SLGBQIA+ employees at both UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan has been steady or slightly increasing over the past four years and is currently similar across both campuses.
Have feedback?
The Employment Equity Report has gone under major revamp over the past two years and continues to evolve, in alignment with the StEAR framework and roadmap. Your feedback will help us to further improve the compilation and presentation of the information in the report.
For questions or additional comments, please email datateam@equity.ubc.ca.