Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

Articles 1 to 4 of the Convention. Gender wage gap. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government, in its report, according to which Supreme Decree No. 4401 contains specific provisions to guarantee the right to equal pay without gender-based discrimination, and establishes that: (1) “the State shall promote the entry of women into employment and also the same remuneration for women and men for work of equal value” (section 5.1) and (2) “it shall be prohibited to justify the existence of a wage gap through aspects directly or indirectly linked to the fact of being a woman, on grounds of pregnancy, maternity, paternity, breastfeeding or family responsibilities” (section 7.1). The Government also indicates that: (1) the data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) show a structural gender wage gap in almost all occupational groups in the private sector, and that at all levels from executive positions to operational jobs, men are paid more than women; (2) between 2022 and 2023, women in the public sector earned an average basic income of 6,548 Bolivian pesos compared with 6,921 Bolivian pesos for men; and (3) women spend an average of seven hours a day on care work. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures adopted or envisaged to reduce the gender wage gap, and on the progress achieved.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.