Persistence of gender inequality in the colombian labor market: Gender gap analysis

Abstract

The objective of the study was to perform a detailed analysis of the gender gaps in Colombia, where several database studies express that women were the most punished with a labor income gap of 39.3% for the year 2021, which evidences that historical gender gaps exist in the Colombian society.
The study took elements of research with a non-experimental qualitative exploratory approach with a descriptive transactional design. Databases of national and international entities in Latin America were used. It was confirmed that female unemployment in the formal labor market has historically been higher than that of the male gender, within the active population. The sectors in which many women worked in various trades were in the accommodation and food services sector for the second quarter of the years 2019-2020. In the pandemic, this number of employed women fell, resulting in higher unemployment among women between 15 and 24 years of age. It was evidenced that indigenous and Afro-Colombian women have a labor participation 10 to 15 points lower than the national average. In rural areas, the female GPR is less than 35% with more than 70% of informal employment, creating a situation of structural exclusion. In conclusion, this is a problem that deepens over time and is aggravated by a high cost of living, which has been a trend in recent years, with high unemployment rates, greater informality than in the past few years, and a higher rate of unemployment. This affects women and young people of both sexes to a greater extent, has increased.