A study of seven Latin American countries examined four factors:
- age,
- employment category,
- education and
- economic sector
which could explain inequalities in income.
Education had the strongest impact on income inequality
and poverty: the probability of belonging to the bottom 20 per cent is higher the less educated the individual. But this gives
only part of the story. With everything else equal
(education, age, economic sector, employment category), working females
"have a 34 per cent (probability) of belonging to the bottom (20 per
cent), versus 14 per cent for males".
Even among indigenous peoples who suffer from a very poor level of living compared with the
non-indigenous population, women tend to be in a worse situation than indigenous men. For
instance, in Bolivia, where educational levels of the indigenous population are much lower
than for the non-indigenous, the disparity in schooling rates is even greater among indigenous
women.
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