The Gender Pay Gap in Venezuela: Let's Talk about It

Leonardo Maldonado
6 min readMay 17, 2023
Dave Granlund cartoon on pay equality.

The wage disparity between men and women is a popular topic in discrimination studies. The gender pay (wage) gap can be simplified cautiously as the difference in earnings between men and women working. The literature on discrimination consistently verifies how women get paid less than men in nearly all occupations. It often unravels figures and trends in that gap, revisiting its main drivers and…

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Leonardo Maldonado

PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. Interested in development policy, natural resource economics, and remote sensing.