 | | Virginia Guzmán is a researcher with the Women's Studies Centre, Emmanuelle Barozet is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Chile, Eduardo Candia is an associate researcher with the Desigualdades project, Bernardita Ihnen is a sociology student at the University of Chile and intern with the Desigualdades project, Bettina Leiva is an economics student at the University of Santiago, Chile and intern with the Desigualdades project | | | Setting out from the broad capability approach put forward by Amartya Sen and working with data from the 2009 National Social Stratification Survey (enes), this article explores the influence of sex on differences in the personal capabilities deemed important for attaining outcomes that determine people’s levels of well-being or deprivation. In terms of capabilities, it investigates individuals’ ability to exercise material, cultural, social and political control over their lives and surroundings, distinguishing between the situation of men and women. Following the construction of individual capability measures, the hypothesis of female disadvantage was tested by the adjustment of multivariate models incorporating relevant controls. The findings suggest that there are non-negligible differences in capabilities between women and men in Chile. | |
