gender equality: a world with

Why gender inequality continues to be a problem for the Colombian economy?

Gender inequality has existed for more than a century where women and men (massively women)
have been physically, sexually and emotionally attacked for the simple fact of their gender. Of
course Colombia has improved in this regard, however it continues to be one of the sustainable
development goals for 2030 where it is necessary to achieve equity for women, girls and people
with different identities according to UNICEF.

The purpose of this essay will be explain why gender inequality continues to be a problem for the
Colombian economy so I will say that I believe that it continues to be a problem for the economy
because women have disproportionate roles in the workplace, causing inequality in wages, an
imbalance in economic resources and a decrease in goods and services, which affects GDP and
economic development. All this will be demonstrated later with 3 arguments, the first one will
specify

first argument:
It is known that women have been denigrated, they have been denied for years the participation
in tasks that are believed to be exclusively male, they have lived with glass ceilings and this has
been demonstrated with the figures where only 38% of 50% of women occupy a job position and
of this 38% the majority have more hours of work and more unpaid work in their homes, which if
they were paid would contribute approximately 12 billion dollars. But how does all this affect our
economy? According to DANE, the salary gap depends on whether the woman or man are single,
the number of children and others, however, generally the income of men is higher than that of
women, where they earn 1.23 million and women 1.07 million. Which generates a decrease in
goods and services, therefore GDP would be negatively affected because the full potential is not
being exercised (female participation), thus obtaining a negative effect at the macroeconomic
level, according to researchers Carmen Pagés and Claudia Piras, from Banco Interamericano de
Desarrollo (BID)

On the other hand, it has been shown that women have a higher education rate than men, "for
every eight women with higher education in Colombia there are seven men who have reached the
same educational level" (Palomino, 2015) but Despite this, women continue to be at a
disadvantage in relation to cultural, social, economic, political and social issues. Women surpass
men at an intellectual level and this includes the orange economy which is affected by gender
inequality and this is because one of the most important factors of this is intellect and creativity,
but Colombia wastes the participation of women in tasks such as painting or cooking where only
20% of women belong to these, which contribute 3.19% to Colombia's GDP

sexism
contributes to culture
Gender equality is a smart economy ”

La igualdad de género es una economía inteligente”.

Inteligencia
Educación
Economía naranja

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