Legal instruments in the face of remuneration discrimination between women and men in Chile

Abstract

Based on the recognition of the principle of equality, in particular that of remuneration between women and men, and the international obligations that the Chilean State has contracted to this purpose, this article intends to account for the current status in Chile of the legal instruments that operate presence of this specific discrimination, and the limitations they present to the effectiveness of the principle of equal remuneration for equal value work between women and men.