Women in Mexico Earn 33% Less Than Men in the Industrial Sector Elizabeth Velasco C. - La Jornada
go to original July 19, 2013

Women between the ages of 30 and 49 constitute the largest group of paid workers in Mexico, and despite their important economic contributions, they face unequal conditions in practically all spheres of work: labor, salary, corporate, social, etc., emphasized the president of the National Institute of Women (Inmujeres), Lorena Cruz.

At the opening of the first Mexican-United States conference for the economic empowerment of Mexican women, in the Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE), Cruz recounted that the inequality that women face is experienced most severely in the industrial sector, since their salary is a third less than that of men, and only three in every 100 women are employers, the majority of which are in microbusinesses and small businesses.

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Translated by Patricia Mitchell

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