According to figures from the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment (Enemdu) Cut to January 2022, women lost more full employment positions than men in the last month.
Until December 2021, women with adequate employment added a total of 997,426 places and in the first month of this year they were reduced to 920,860, which means that 76,566 women lost their jobs in January 2022.
While men had 1,922,485 adequate employment positions at the end of last year and ended the first month of 2022 with 30,085 less.
In total, between men and women, 106,651 full/adequate employment positions were lost in just one month, and participation in this type of employment closed the month of January with 67.3% of positions for men and 32. 7% for women, which means that out of every ten jobs, between six and seven are occupied by men and a maximum of three are for women.
Of those 106,651 fewer jobs, 33,853 were people who worked in the urban area and 72,798 in the rural sector. While 65,987 of the lost positions belonged to employment in the private sector and 40,754 were public employees. The largest share of full employment is in the private sector with 81.7% of jobs compared to 18.3% in the public sector.
The age range in which more full employment positions were lost in the last month was between 35 and 44 years old, with 117,981; followed by those between 25 and 34 years old, with 73,599; and among those 65 and over, with 12,301. However, there was a recovery or increase in places in the ages of 15 and 24, with 34,899; and between 45 and 64 years old, with 62,331.
The range with the highest participation in adequate employment remains between those between 45 and 64 years old, as has happened since June 2018, except only for what was registered in the month of May 2021, when those between 35 and 44 years old led.
People aged 45 to 64 had 34.4% of places last January; followed by those between 25 and 34 years old, with 27.2%; those between 35 and 44 years old, with 25.6%; those between 15 and 24 years old, with 9.9%; and those aged 65 and over, with 2.9%.
People with higher education are the ones who lost the most places in the last month, with 148,366; although between last December and January, more than 41,700 citizens who had only reached high school or who did not even have any level of education were hired.
Currently, the greatest participation in adequate employment is for those who have only reached middle school or high school, with 39.1% of vacancies; followed by those with higher education, with 34.8%. Until June 2015, those who led full employment were those who had only reached basic education, with 34.8% of places.
Citizens self-identified as mestizos lead the share of full employment with 87%; however, they lost 96,498 jobs in the last month alone, while 17,321 people were left unemployed in those of indigenous ethnicity. Those of the Afro-Ecuadorian or Afro-descendant ethnic group are the ones that had a recovery of jobs, with 27,230 new jobs.
Full employment in domestic work improved from 1.8% to 2.3%, which represented 10,031 new jobs. But work in the formal sector fell from 80.7% to 79.1%, while in the informal sector it rose from 14.2% to 16.5%.
It should be remembered that, according to the classification of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), in full or adequate employment are people with employment who, during the reference week (of the survey), receive labor income equal to or greater than the salary minimum, they work equal to or more than 40 hours a week, regardless of the desire and availability to work additional hours. Or also people with a job who, during the reference week, receive labor income equal to or greater than the minimum wage, work less than 40 hours, but do not wish to work additional hours. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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