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away several years that the public comments on the difference between wages of men and women, but the issue hits harder to find that the higher the education of women, most discriminated against are with their salaries.
The gap is repeated in both the public and private, where professionals are being left several thousand dollars behind that men who do the same work, even taking more advanced studies.
Just look at the statistics department presented study Labour Department, which notes that to 2003, who came third socioeconomic quintile earned the equivalent of 80% of the income of men with the same performance, while the fifth quintile obtained only 66% of what they earned their peers.
The weight of tradition is the main reason for this difference in the view of team Labor Practices Sernam . Tatiana Hernandez, a sociologist at the program, explains that even in the XXI century is still associated with men as the breadwinner and the woman in a domestic role, picture hanging on the employer when deciding the salaries of each one.
The sociologist adds that, in fact, it is believed widespread that women tend to have careers just to meet personal aspirations, which could put aside to care for her family. What is a fact, that interrupt their professional career for motherhood, thereby subtracting years of experience, which tends to discourage employers to hire women in positions of responsibility.
President of the United Workers Central, CUT, Arturo MartÃnez, agrees that these are the main reasons for this form of discrimination. This is shown in the following audio file.
But Tatiana Hernandez says they are just myths underlying the wage gap, which is the fact that we tend to think that women are more expensive for companies, for possible medical leave maternal. Given this, the economist Iguala.cl program, the Sernam, stresses that the absenteeism of men tends to be equal to that of their peers, in terms of loss that could lead to the company, so this does not should be a reason not to hire the ladies.
However, the lack of incentives to protect motherhood is a factor in the time women decide to leave the world of work. The result is that only 35% of workers in Chile are women.
the world of work also shows less incentive to independent women. As shown, who married under the old system, under community property system, have less access to credit in case their husbands present debts. Likewise, the financial world has been traditionally managed by men, so women's income tends to look with suspicion, especially when it comes to former homeowners who have decided to go ahead with a microenterprise.
A reality that has not escaped the public service where jobs appear by grade protect the wage gap. However, according to the testimony of a member of the team Sernam, it so happens that a woman should assume the same responsibility as a man of EUS highest degree, without receiving more pay for that. This is attested in the following video.
In this scenario, the National Service for Women has addressed this issue with Iguala.cl program, through which invites companies to participate voluntarily in a program of good to fair labor practices gender. This is developed within the concept of "Decent Work " prepared by the International Labour Organization, ILO. With this program, hopes to install gender equality in the processes of recruitment and selection and such as career development and access to training. It is also expected that there is equal representation in positions of leadership.
In the same vein, http://www.iguala.cl/ page makes available to employers and workers the information needed to drive cultural change, in order to incorporate more women to work on an equal footing with their male colleagues.
These initiatives should see fruit in the coming years, in a country that despite the conservatism of steadily increasing numbers of women heads of household. As stated by Carolina Villarroel, economist Sernam the country continues to grow as far as not making the huge human resource which means this group of women has not been able to obtain employment appropriate to their qualifications.
the end, and everyone has the right to obtain decent and productive work is a right of all women receive a fair share of the wealth that has helped to create.
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