The latest update of the INE Supplementary Income Survey indicates that the wage gap between genders is 25.5% to the detriment of women.
The above places our country above the world level of wage gap.
According to the survey, men received an average income of $850,412; while the majority of women received $633,334. In addition, between 2021 and 2022 the average income of men increased by $101,366. Meanwhile, that of women rose by $47,156.
Likewise, the Economic Context Observatory of the Diego Portales University, pointed out that women receive 21.7% less income than men.
The document also indicates that the wage gap decreases in formal jobs to 18.8% and rises in informal activities to 30.1%.
Along the same lines, the fourth Report on Gender Indicators in Companies in Chile, published last year by the Ministry of Finance, Fundación Chile Mujeres and the ILO, indicates that the salary gap in executive positions is 14.1% in 2022, which increased compared to 2020.
Reducing the wage gap in the world is one of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Maternity
The economist from the University of Talca, Andrea Betancor Cazenave, explained that there are multiple causes for this phenomenon, “among them, the maternity penalty, which shows that having a first child for a woman means, in terms of her career path, reducing her salary. regarding a man.”
“Studies indicate that, by graduating from the same degree, a man and a woman, with the same conditions and with equal remuneration, when having a child, the woman reduces her salary and never reaches the man’s remuneration once more through the development of his career,” explained the economist.
Along with this, the prThe teacher stated that the Law that establishes the obligation to provide a nursery in companies with more than 20 women, but “this has a cost that translates, and has been shown through different investigations, into a salary penalty for women in general, not only for those who have children under 2 years old. So, this article is an identified cause of the wage gap.”
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