Gender equality and wage gap. Case study Trujillo Peru

Anett Alexandra L.A.; Esteban Fernando R.C.; Patricia Ismary B.R. · Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology (2024) · DOI: 10.18687/leird2024.1.1.372

Resumen

This objective determines the relationship between gender equity and wage gap in the population aged 18 to 39 in the city of Trujillo during the year 2023; The purpose is to determine whether both variables are related or not in this segment, because currently there are problems of inequity and inequality in work environments with consequent salary gaps where we can observe that women are at a disadvantage. This research has a quantitative, applied, cross-sectional, correlational scope focuse and non-experimental design. There is a finite population of 120,666 people in the age range of 18 to 39 from the city of Trujillo, according to the population registry by simple ages of the INEI and a sample of 196 citizens from 18 to 39 years old who have work experience. The survey was used as a data collection technique and the questionnaire as an instrument. With the results obtained, we determine that there is a relationship between gender equity and wage gap in the population between 18 and 39 years old in the city of Trujillo during the year 2023; with a highly significant relationship (Sig.<0.01), and a Spearman's Rho coefficient of -0.186. We conclude that there is an inverse relationship between these two variables, indicating that the greater the gender equality, the wage gap decreases and vice versa.