Women continue to earn less than men, not least because 26% of them received the minimum wage in 2020, which contributed to 8.5% being in poverty, despite working, says the Social Studies Office CGTP. According to the analysis, based on data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), there were 827,000 workers receiving the national minimum wage in 2020, corresponding to 23.5% of private sector workers, with 424,000 of them being women.
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