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Even Educated Young Women Face Poor, Jobless Future
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Written By: Guadalupe Cruz Jaimes*/ipsnews
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Posted Date: 1/18/2012 12:31:20 PM
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The year 2012 started off with little promise for workers in
Mexico, with analysts projecting job losses and wages below
subsistence levels.
Work prospects are even bleaker for young women, whose chances of
finding a job are no better with a high school diploma or university
degree.
Carmen Ponce, an economist specialising in gender issues, says 2012
will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job
creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of
the implementation of a trade agreement that opens the door to
imports from that country.
Ponce forecasts that some 100,000 jobs will be lost this year. The
sectors most "severely" affected will be the textile, shoe and toy
industries, where women dominate the workforce. In the textile
industry alone they account for 70 percent of all workers.
Young women are the hardest hit by jobs cuts, as unemployment rates
for this segment of the population are on the rise, with figures
climbing from 7.35 percent in the second quarter of 2007 to 10.23
percent in the same period of 2011 among women aged 14 to 19.
Unemployment in this age group is also "indicating that family
incomes are so low that (young women) are having to venture into the
job market to bring in another salary, instead of staying in school,"
Ponce said.
Unemployment: A women's problem
Among 20- to 29-year-old women with high school or university
studies, the increase is similarly "alarming", steadily rising from
7.7 percent in 2007 to 10.49 percent in 2011.
For Ponce, these figures reflect "the feminisation of unemployment".
According to the National Statistics and Geography Institute (INEGI),
as of November 2011 there were 2.8 million people unemployed in
Mexico, and seven out of 10 had secondary or higher education.
The lack of opportunities among this segment of the population has
driven many to migrate to the United States.
Ponce notes that more and more young people with over nine years of
schooling are migrating to the United States, risking their lives as
they cross the border illegally.
Of the 767 migrants reported dead in 2011, 476 (62 percent) were
young women.
A report by a legal committee of the opposition Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Congress found that |
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