Gender wage gap reported in El Salvador and Huelva

Recent reports highlight significant gender-based wage disparities in El Salvador and the Huelva province of Spain.

In El Salvador, a study by the World Inequality Lab indicates that women earn only 32% of what men earn. Experts attribute this to structural and sociocultural factors, noting that men often occupy supervisory, engineering, and planning roles, while women are frequently concentrated in manual labor positions, such as in the textile industry. Additionally, the International Labour Organization notes that women perform significantly more unpaid domestic work than men, further impacting economic equality.

In Huelva, Spain, the wage gap has reached 30%, the highest among the provinces in Andalusia. According to the 2026 Provincial Report on Poverty and Social Exclusion, men earn an average annual gross salary of 19,591 euros, while women earn 13,718 euros—a monthly difference of approximately 488 euros. The report also finds that over 63% of employed women in the province earn less than the national minimum wage, driven by occupational segregation in precarious sectors like domestic work.