Historical Patterns of Gender Inequality in Latin America: New Evidence

María Camou ()
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María Camou: Programa de Historia Económica y Social, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

No 38, Documentos de trabajo from Programa de Historia Económica, FCS, Udelar

Abstract: The topic of this paper is to explore Latin America’s backwardness in the incorporation of women to the labour market. The collected data allows advancing in the reconstruction of the main disaggregated gender indicators of performance in education, income and life expectancy for a group of Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, México and Venezuela) along the XX century. The evidence shows that Latin America has already achieved gender equality in the results for Education and Life Expectancy in most countries. Nevertheless, the main gap between the sexes is in the labour market, both in the participation rate and in wages. Our preliminary results show a marked relationship between women’s activity rate and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, but this is not enough to explain variations between countries

Keywords: gender inequality; labour market; gender education gap; Gender Development Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N36 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2015-04
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