Gender wage equality perception in Latin America 2023

A survey carried out in 2023 revealed that Mexico had the lowest score of gender wage equality for similar work among 21 Latin American and Caribbean countries surveyed. Mexico scored 0.51 points of a maximum of one, grade that would represent perfect equality.

The indicator is based on the perceptions of wage equality in each country. Respondents were asked to which extent, in a scale from one to seven, wages for women are equal to those of men. The answers were then converted into a females to males ratio, where zero represents the worst possible level of inequality and one, perfect equality. Based on the estimated earned income per capita, Guatemala had the worst gender pay gap in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Perceived gender wage equality for similar work in selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023

Characteristic	Index score
Barbados	0.71
Uruguay	0.65
Chile	0.62
Dominican Republic	0.62
Argentina	0.6
Guatemala	0.6
Panama	0.6
Costa Rica	0.6
Honduras	0.6
Ecuador	0.6
Colombia	0.59
Peru	0.59
Paraguay	0.57
Brazil	0.56
Nicaragua	0.55
Bolivia	0.54
El Salvador	0.53
Mexico	0.51

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Release date

July 2023

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

2023

Special properties

1 = equality; 0 = inequality; index based on the perceived wage equality in a survey*

Supplementary notes

* World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion Survey (EOS) 2020-2021 or most recent year available.
Based on replies to the survey question: “In your country, for similar work, to what extent are wages for women equal to those of men?” (1 = not at all, significantly below those of men; 7 = fully, equal to those of men).
Results were then converted into a females to males ratio, where 0 represents the worst possible inequality and 1, perfect equality.
Figures have been rounded. The index scores shown in the graph may slightly differ to the original three-decimal scores.

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