Gender inequality in youth unemployment is more than 15% in Latin America

More than 50% of young Latin American women did not have access to employment at the beginning of 2020, a gender inequality of more than 15 percentage points in the transition from studies to the job market in all countries in the region, according to a study by the NGO Ayuda en Acción on youth unemployment in Latin America and Spain.

The report, presented this Monday at Cada de América in Madrid, states that only a third of young people have completed this transition and that young women, particularly those on low incomes and in rural areas, in this situation face greater exclusion due to unequal distribution domestic and care work.

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The director of the Europe Action Aid Program, Matías Figueroa, told EFE that the data shows a “clear sense of urgency” in the face of youth unemployment.

The study, which brings together data from household or employment surveys in 17 Latin American countries and Spain, concludes that only 23% of people between the ages of 15 and 29 are currently employed in a stable and satisfactory job.

To deduce it, it uses the Index of Disadvantaged Transitions (ITed), a biannual tool developed by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), based in Argentina, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) and the Autonomous University. from Barcelona, ​​​​Spain, which aims to understand the educational, labor and gender inequalities behind unemployment data.

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“We were looking to have an instrument that would serve to take a periodic portrait, every two years, to decipher the elements that make it difficult for young people to enter the job market”, explained Figueroa, who considered that today this transition is no longer “linear ”But rather a subsequent process with interruptions.

Ayuda en Acción defines the situation of access to the first stable job as “an outstanding debt” and emphasizes the causes that were aggravated by the covid-19 pandemic, such as school dropout, completion of secondary education and differentiated access to opportunities.

“We have to break this intergenerational legacy of poverty and allow young people to reach a place different from where they come from, because this determines the place where their possibilities are born,” noted Figueroa.

Therefore, he considered it essential to end “the discourse in which we naturalize that young people have to get used to living in moments of uncertainty” and, instead, support “consensus policies” on “structural issues such as youth unemployment”, to “ think about “an idea of ​​a country as a future and with good opportunities”.

Source: Elcomercio

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