The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) estimated that the salary gap Gender amounted to 27.2%, above what was registered before the pandemic, when it amounted to 27%.
In this way, he said that women perceived on average s/1,536, while men reached S/2,109, which represents a difference of S/573.
The regions with the largest salary gaps are: Arequipa (42.4%), Moquegua (40.4%) and Cajamarca (38.4%). In contrast, in 2024 Loreto closed his gap and Amazonas (8.3%) and Madre de Dios (20.4%) presented the lower income differences between men and women.
“This gap is linked to barriers both access and quality of employment. At 2024, eight out of ten men of working age participated in the labor market, while only six out of ten women did it,” said the IPE.
Income disparities between men and women also vary according to education levels. The wage gap reaches 39.5% in the group without education, while for the group with non -university higher education it is reduced to 28.2% and with university education to 23.9%.
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