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Women in Argentina receive about 27 percent less than their male counterparts, and represent double the number of men in the poorest bracket of the population in the country, an official report stated.
The large wage difference based on gender was determined based on data from the first trimester of 2017 in the Evolution of Income Distribution report developed by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.
On average, men receive 14,690 pesos (US$870) a month while women make 10,710 pesos (US$635), with women doubling the number of men in lower income positions.
Despite this, the urban, salaried population in the country — about 24 million people or 59.4 percent of the population — is almost equally divided by gender: 29.6 percent are male, and 29.7 percent are women.
Women make up almost 70 percent than of those in the poorest 10 percent, while men are a majority of those in the richest 10 percent, according to the same data.
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