2024-03-24 03:20:22
RIO DE JANEIROBrazilian women earned 21 percent less on average than men, despite having a higher level of schooling than men, reported this March 8, the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in the framework of International Women’s Day.
According to the report released this Friday corresponding to 2022, income inequality between both sexes is greater among professionals, intellectuals and scientists, with around 36 percent less on average than men.
The IBGE noted in its gender study that 21.3 percent of women aged 25 or older had higher education, while among men the rate was 16.8 percent.
Women’s degrees in areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics are much lower than those of men, since among women they only represent 22 percent.
“Gender stereotypes may be behind this difference,” indicated the IBGE, considering that the condition is not the same for both sexes, since according to the indicators it worsens among black and mixed-race women.
Black or mestizo women are more related to domestic work and caring for people, while having the lowest participation among the workforce.
This segment of the Brazilian female population works more than white women, and black or mixed-race women also have less access to higher education (14.7 percent) than white women (29 percent).
The activities where women encounter the greatest obstacles to reaching command levels are agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and aquaculture, since only 16 percent of management positions are occupied by them, with an average in all sectors of 39 percent. hundred.
The IBGE study also shows that women carry out more domestic tasks than men, adding 21.3 hours per week, almost double that of men (11.7 hours). Women’s workload, when adding employment paid and domestic tasks, that is, the famous double shift, was also higher than that of men: 54.4 hours per week for women and 52.1 for men.
«Women are working all day. “The data we provide underestimates even this workload,” the study stated. Working 55 hours or more per week is associated with a higher risk of suffering a stroke or dying from heart disease, according to a global study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).
By: XINHUA