{"id":194452,"date":"2023-03-06T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=194452"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:45:23","slug":"fewer-women-work-than-men-but-they-earn-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/fewer-women-work-than-men-but-they-earn-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer women work than men, but they earn more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Mujeres-ganan-mas-que-hombres-Listin-Diario-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194554\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting report came out of the Ministry of Industry &amp; Commerce (MICM) last week. The report highlights that only 23% of the workers in the nation\u2019s system of industrial manufacturing are women, around 32,000 in number, even when this is a 12% increase over 2015. However, the same report says that the average salaries woman are making are over RD$5,000 more then what the men earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the article in the Listin Diario on the topic, the average salary for women is RD$38,288, and for men it is RD$33,164. Some 70% of the women are employed in large industries, 19% are employed in small businesses and 7% are in micro-companies. Women are predominant in plastics, pharmaceuticals and soaps and detergents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/economia\/2023\/03\/03\/765261\/participacion-de-las-mujeres-en-la-manufactura-es-de-23-pero-ganan-mas-que-los-hombres\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 March 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting report came out of the Ministry of Industry &amp; Commerce (MICM) last week. The report highlights that only 23% of the workers in the nation\u2019s system of industrial manufacturing are women, around 32,000 in number, even when this is a 12% increase over 2015. However, the same report says that the average salaries &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/fewer-women-work-than-men-but-they-earn-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194555,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194452\/revisions\/194555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}