Mexico: Women and full employment

Girón, Alicia; Correa, Eugenia; Arroyo Sotomayor, Alejandra y Pérez Licona, Patricia (2000): Mexico: Women and full employment. In: Congreso Internacional Meetings International Association for Feminist Economics, 15 al 16 de agosto de 2000, Turquía. (No publicado)

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This paper proposes the instrumentation of a Full Employment Program to offer unlimited paid employment for unskilled Mexican women. This program is designed to wipe away unemployment, but also to produce public goods, to contribute to poverty decline, and to increase work qualification level. Its implementation will allow, among other things, to create a salary and occupational floor to stop increased poverty; to produce indispensable goods and services to be able to elevate social welfare; to increase paid work culture, and to combat gender inequalities as well as to prevent illegal migration.The first part of the paper analyses women’s occupational panorama in Mexico where several data is mentioned concerning women’s occupational level where only one third of fifteen or more years old women are occupied. From these, less than a third have an instruction of 9 and less years, a half has no fixed income, two thirds have no fringe benefits and they work more than 40 hours a week.The second part of the paper exposes the main characteristics of the program that can be accomplished by steps. The program also establishes unlimited employment supply with minimum salary, plus benefits for a daily 6 hours job. In its top point, this program could occupy about ten million women. Mainly, this employment program could be applied for road building, water supplies, public services, schooling programs, environmental care, third age and childhood care, as well as public schools assistance and security. The program’s financing can also be graded, and main sources could be achieved through: increasing taxpayers, allowing a public deficit of 2 per cent of GDP; drawing special taxes over real financial profits; and discounting foreign debt real interests. An employment and demand increase, which is created through this program, also raises public income and establishes the program’s expenditure.Women represent 37 per cent of active economic population in Mexico, while their income’s participation only represents 22 per cent of the total. This clearly reflects gender inequalities in our country.

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