Feminine participation in the Latin American labor market reversed a decade as a consequence of the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic caused one more than a decade of learning at the levels of labor participation of women in Latin America, gives the female participation rate a 6% in 2020. In this way, it is 46%, ahead of 69% of the male.

The information is based on a report published by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal). Titled “The economic autonomy of women in sustainable and equitable recovery”, the dependent body of the UN indicates that it already has 118 million Latino women will be placed in poverty, 23 million more than in 2019.

Cepal details that during 2020 “a steady flow of women will be registered by the labor force, women, by waiting to meet the demands of their senior citizens, not to retaliate for the job search”. This was due to the fact that the female drop-out rate was 12% this year.

The work participation task is defined as the percentage of work in working age (both occupants and occupants) means that the occupancy rate is calculated as the occupant between occupants and the working population.

We must advance a careful society. The pandemic has shown us that sepan cuidar y cuidarse van a tener majors oportunidades de sobrevivencia en el corto y largo plazo ”, Alicia Bárcena, Executive Director of Cepal’s Executive Press, will present the telematic information.

The pandemic, which in various countries traverses a second oil, has a total of 20 million infections and more than 600,000 deaths in the region and has provoked the economic crisis of the mayor in the last 120 years in Latin America: according to the organism, the contraction during 2020 fell by 7.7%.

The region, with 626 million people and considered the most desigual of the world, was confronted with the pandemic at a time of economic deprivation, translated into a crime that opened a rate of 0.1% in 2019. Before covid-19, Cepal predicts that Latin America will create a maximum of 1.3% in 2020.

Jobs in risk sectors

According to the document, 56.9% of women in Latin America and 54.3% in the Caribbean are occupied by sectors in which a negative mayor is expected in terms of employment and the causes of the pandemic.

One of them is the domestic work remunerated. “It is characterized by a high precariousness and due to the impossibility of being remotely formed, there is one of them more volatile sectors over the covid-19 crisis in the region ”, ilustró Bárcena.

In 2019, previo a la pandemia, el 11.1% of occupied women are dedicated to domestic work remunerated, during the crisis the occupancy levels in the sector saw the figures increase by 24.7% in Brazil; 46.3% of Chili; 44.4% of Colombia; 45.5% of Costa Rica; 33.2% of Mexico; y 15.5% of Paraguay.

The region, affirming the title of Cepal, “must invest in the economy of the city and reconnoiter it as a sector that recovers from the recovery, with multiplier effects in the property, the distribution of time and increments, the labor participation, the collection and the tributary collection ”.

Other sectors are strongly affected by the frontiers and the restrictions on mobility tourism, which in the region is very feminized, with a 61.5% of the occupancy costs occupied by women, according to information.

For Bárcena, it is “urgent” to reform employment policies and ensure the participation of women in the dynamic sectors of the economy “in decent working conditions”.

Además, concluyó, “Fundamental results advance in a new fiscal pact that promotes gender equality and avoids deepening the levels of poverty of the women, the non-remuneration of labor and the reduction of the funding of equal rights policies ”.

With EFE information

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