A few days before the commemoration of Women’s Day (March 8), the International Labor Organization (ILO) shared a report where it is evident the labor gap between women and men after the last two years of the pandemic.
(Read: Women, behind in financial decisions).
“Of the 23.6 million jobs for women that were lost at the worst moment of the crisis in the second quarter of 2020, at the end of 2021 some 4.2 million were still to be recovered”, indicates the report of the organism. While on the same date, in the case of men, they had already recovered practically completely the 26 million jobs lost.
Heads of households with small children, indigenous, rural, Afro-descendant women, and those with less academic training have been the most affected at the labor level by the pandemic.
For the third quarter of 2021, the average unemployment rate for men was 8.3%, while that of women was 12.4%.
According to the ILO, among the factors that contribute to increasing gender gaps in the labor market is the high informalitythe difficulties in reconciling family responsibilities with paid work due to the closure of educational and care centers, and the closure of shops, restaurants and hotels.
(What’s more: Women in Latin America, with fewer legal rights than men).
In Colombia, according to the Dane report, for the quarter from November 2021 to January 2022, there are 98,000 women below men, who still do not find a job, between 25 and 54 years old.
“While among men the unemployment rate for January 2022 was 11.2%, for women it was 19.4%”.
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