In Brazil Women Earn Up to 70% Less than Men and Blacks 60% Less than Whites

Notwithstanding their higher degree of formal education, Brazilian women receive salaries that average 30% less than their male counterparts.

This information is part of the study, National System of Gender Information, based on the 2000 Census. The study was released yesterday, May 22, by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

For the IBGE technical staff, this inequity is explainable in part by the greater occupation of women in the service sector and in low-paying, less qualified jobs.

The Center-West, Southeast, and South are the regions with the greatest concentration of women who earn less than 70% of what men earn.

The greatest degree of salary equality, according to the IBGE, was observed in the North and Northeast, where salaries are generally lower for members of both sexes.

The same regional differences prevail when race is considered. Salary disparities between whites, on the one hand, and blacks and mulattoes, on the other, are greatest in the Center-West, Southeast, and South and smallest in the North and Northeast.

According to the 2000 Census, blacks and mulattoes earn less than whites in all regions, with the difference attaining nearly 60% in some cases. For black women, the National System of Gender Information found that "the outlook is even bleaker, since they are the victims of double discrimination."

Agência Brasil

Tags:

You May Also Like

Brazil’s Bad Roads and Neglect Kill 65 on Christmas

During the Christmas holiday in Brazil (between the days of 24 and 26 of ...

Brazil Cosmetic Industry Hoping to Rake US$ 12 Billion This Year

Brazilian Exports of cosmetics grew 21% in the first eight months of 2008 when ...

South Korea to Buy Brazilian Poultry and Beef

In an audience January 20, a group of lawmakers from South Korea informed the ...

Brazil’s Zero Hunger Food Experts Get a Week of Training

Encouraging healthy eating habits among Brazilians is the purpose of courses in the cities ...

Steel in Bulk Production Grows 7% in Brazil

The production of steel in bulk in Brazil was 3.14 million tons in August, ...

Indian Air Force Gets Brazil’s Embraer Jets

Brazil’s aircraft maker Embraer announced today the delivery of three specially configured Legacy Executive ...

Brazil’s Summit on Biodiversity a Big Flop, Says Greenpeace

As the two-week long world summit on biodiversity drew to a close, Greenpeace described ...

Brazil: Meals for 30 Cents at Coca-Cola Restaurant

Coca-Cola has joined Zero Hunger offering subsidized meals to the Brazilian poor for as ...

Whoever Becomes Brazil’s Next President It Won’t Be an Anti-Lula

As a cooling Rio summer sees the refreshing “March waters” clean the streets of ...

Paper women

In the 20th century, Brazilian women writers have helped to transform the literary landscape. ...

WordPress database error: [Table './brazzil3_live/wp_wfHits' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `wp_wfHits`