A comparative analysis among Colombia,
Thailand and South Africa of the gender inequality
in the economic liberalization is a
descriptive and heuristic research which objective
was analyzed the gender inequality in
the context of economic liberalization. The
research question is what have been the impacts
of reforms of trade policy in terms of
women’s participation in the labor market,
horizontal segregation and gender wage gaps
in the countries mentioned above?. In response,
the comparative study of the three
case studies assumed that the women’s participation
in the labor market has grown, but
occupational and wage segregation by gender
persists. The scope of the research showed
that the comparison of cases highlights that
women themselves are among the most vulnerable
to changes by economic liberalization
in trade policy and economic shocks, where
the market does not solve disparities in economic
distribution of women.