Another leftist lie debunked: In Uruguay, there is no gender pay gap

The gender pay gap in Uruguay refers to the alleged average difference in income between men and women, expressed as a percentage of men's salary. 

The supposed pay gap means that women, on average, receive less money than men for similar jobs or under comparable conditions.

A repeated lie

The differences in income between Uruguayan men and women are not due to discrimination, but to individual choices, differences in work experience, hours worked, or occupational preferences. 

Women choose lower-paid occupations (such as teaching or nursing), while men choose to work in sectors like engineering or technology.

Additionally, Uruguayan women work fewer hours. They work 33 hours per week (7 hours fewer than men) compared to men's 40 hours per week, according to the 2024 Continuous Household Survey.

Work interruptions due to maternity reduce accumulated experience. 

In their career paths, there are women who decide to become mothers, and this causes them to be left behind, by their own choice, within the company where they work.

An illogical lie

If it were true that in Uruguay women worked less than men, companies would hire only women, not men.

Something that obviously doesn't happen in practice. Private companies hire whoever they consider best for the position, regardless of sex.

Additionally, feminists who repeat the gender pay gap myth conveniently hide that almost all those who die while working are men, almost always in jobs such as construction or agriculture.

Almost no women are reported to have died while working.

The public sector

In state agencies, employees receive compensation according to the agency's pay scale, regardless of sex.

An administrative employee at the Ministry of Tourism will receive a salary according to the corresponding pay scale, regardless of whether the employee is a man or a woman.

A falsehood repeated by feminists

Uruguayan feminists, and those from all over the world, insistently repeat that simply because they are women, they earn less than men for the same work.

This lie is part of the feminist narrative that is based on permanently victimizing women and blaming men for all the problems they face.

It is one of the many falsehoods that Uruguayan feminists have been repeating for decades with the aim of obtaining privileges and benefits. 

It is something similar to what happens with homicides. In 90% of murders, the victims are men, but feminists focus only on the 10% of murdered women, and they call this "femicide". 

As always, feminists create a false narrative by inventing figures and manipulating information, in order to victimize themselves and thus obtain privileges such as state subsidies and public money.