A new study shows some encouraging data about the state of workplace equality — at least as it relates to remuneration — for women in Latin America. According to the Organización Internacional del Trabajo’s (OIT, International Work Organization) report “Equality in the Workplace”, in the period of 1994-2004 salaries for women in Latin America have gone up considerably, reaching almost the same level of pay for their male counterparts in some cases, and falling just below in others:

In Paraguay, for example, women went from earning 36% less than men in 1994 to 5% less in 2004.

The same thing happened in Brazil in the same decade (from 39% to 13%), and Chile (from 30% to 17%), in Mexico (from 32% to 22%) and in Ecuador (from 24% to 13%).

The best examples of positive change for salary equality in Latin America were Venezuela and Colombia, where women workers earn only 1% less than their male counterparts. The worst? Argentina, where women earn an average of 38% less than men, a statistic that didn’t change from 1994-2004.

Via / El Universal