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2014-5-29 | News

Women's participation in the metal Industry

Metallurgical sector female workers share grows 26.6 % in 11 years. The number of women in the metallurgical sector in the last 11 years has reached the greatest level jumping from 14.7% in 2002 to 18.6% in 2012. This represents a 26.6% growth in this period. The information comes from Dieese (Metallurgic National Confederation), and may be found in an unpublished study about the Brazilian metallurgical woman profile. The research was made RAIS (Annual Social Information) and CGED (Employed and Unemployed General Cadastre) both of the Ministry of Work and Employment. The study shows that in 2012 the almost 2.4 millions workers in the metallurgical sector, were 1.9 million men while 445 thousnd were women.

The men share decreases Analyzing separately the first and the last years of the series it may be observed that the women share increases 26.6% while the men decreases 4,6%. In spite of information revealing an important approximation movement it would need some decades to get a better sex distribution. The study also shows in the gender distribution inside the metallurgical sector segments, female share is more significant in the electro domestic segment (35.3%) while in the naval segment women are only 8.4% of the total.

Wages distance increases In accordance with the Dieese referring wages there still exists a great distance about what is paid to men and women. The study reveals that movement is not an approximation as number of workers is. Between 2010 and 2011 (last available data) the wages turned out to be more unequal. In 2010 average women wages were 27.9 % lower than the men. In 2012 the distance had a small increase reaching 28.3%.

In December 2011 women received an average R$ 1.865,38 against men R$ 2,600.43. The segment having the lowest was the naval (2.7%), on the other side in the electro domestic segment women did receive 37.3% less. In spite of different actions to fight the wages difference this remains one of the syndicate, the state federations and the CNM/CUT great challenges. This turns out to be true also for the syndicate general movement because the wages differences are true in all the work market, and such a difference remains even when women usually have a highest school degree level than men.

The Dieese research shows that men with university degree are 9.27%. Among women 15.48% have an university degree. Even reckoning the above differences CNM/CUT syndicate Woman Secretary understands that women .have improved their participation in the society. If we look behind, in spite of oppression, discrimination, and the cultural tradition placing women in a inferiority position - we improved significantly in the last decades, thanking affirmative politics the syndicates and the society actions.