In Latin America, 42% of people who work as freelancers are women According to the figures provided by the Freelancer Insights Report 2023, and in the year 2022, the participation of women as freelancers was 29%.
This digit, compared to that of the year 2021stayed the same, and the key to increasing the participation of women in the labor market was flexibility of freelance jobs.
From The Truth Newswe announce that a study was carried out in which it was revealed that women seek greater flexibility to work 1.5 times more than men.
Women looking for remote work
Freelance jobs are requested for flexibility
In the survey conducted by McKinsey & Company, 60% of the respondents indicated that they seek to work remotely as opposed to 50% of the men.
Likewise, they said that freelance work has a wage gap worldwide because women are paid $22 an hour against $24 an hour for men.
About the age range of people who work as freelance between 18 and 24 years old, women have a profit of 16 dollars per hour and men of 21 dollars, from 25 to 34 years old, men receive 22 dollars and women women 21.
Between the ages of 35 and 44, men earn 25 dollars an hour against the 24 that women receive and finally from 45 years of age onwards, women only earn 29 dollars against the 36 for men.
That means the global pay for freelancers is $23 an hour, those from the North American region being the best paid and Central America being the worst paid.
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Places where freelancers are paid more
Women prefer working from home over men
- North America: $56 an hour (1,064 pesos).
- Western Europe: $27 an hour (513 pesos).
- South America: $24 an hour (456 pesos).
- Central and Eastern Europe: $23 an hour (437 pesos).
- Africa: 22 dollars an hour (418 pesos).
- Asia Pacific: $20 an hour (380 pesos).
- Central America: $18 an hour (342 pesos).
The professions that are most hired as freelance are:
- Web development and graphic design: 21% (earn $22).
- Content writing: 11% ($26).
- Programming: 9% (28 dollars).
- Translation 9% (19 dollars).
- IT: 7% (21 dollars).
- Marketing: 7% ($28).
- Multimedia production: 6% (35 dollars).
- Administrative: 6% (13 dollars).
- Sales: 3% (20 dollars).
- Customer support: 2% (10 dollars).
- Q&A: 2% ($10).
- Finance: 2% (10 dollars).
- Project management: 2% (26 dollars).
- Others: 13% (24 dollars).
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