Workplace Discrimination Against Women Persists in Latin America EFE
go to original January 28, 2014

The report makes a series of recommendations for reducing the gender inequalities that are present in practically all Latin American nations. (EFE)

SANTIAGO - The greater incorporation of women into the working world in recent decades in Latin America has not gone hand in hand with a reduction in the gaps with men in terms of pay and opportunity, according to a U.N. study.

"Gender inequalities are a direct consequence of traditional views on the place and role that women should occupy in society - views based on prejudice, discrimination and disregard for the progress the region has made and its effects on societies," the document says.

Five U.N. agencies - the International Labor Organization, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Development Program and U.N. Women - collaborated to carry out the study.

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