Final conclusions Machismo and gender violence against women have an impact on the living conditions of migrant women, who, according to the survey conducted with Caritas, reported having been victims of machista and misogynist comments. In addition, only 37% of them received support from humanitarian assistance groups (NGO, Foundation, Cooperation) and from other migrants. As for sexual advances in exchange for transportation, housing, food, and shelter, these were reported equally by women and men. While it is true that the vulnerability to which men, women, and gender diversities are exposed in their journeys is determined by their migratory status, women face greater risks and threats such as macho and misogynist treatment and comments. In terms of working conditions, it was found that on average male employment is higher than female employment, and women who work earn on average less income than men. In the country at the national level in January 2022, the average labor income of a man with a job was $402.5, while for a woman with a job it was $343.6 monthly (INEC, 2022). While the average monthly income of the female population in a situation of human mobility is $171.5 and the male population $202. In other words, the average income of people in a situation of human mobility is half of what Ecuadorians earn, which further deepens the reality and precariousness of migrant and refugee women. The wage gap is perceived as an expression of structural gender violence since it is a problem that does not occur only in a single city or at the country level. However, direct violence also occurs in the workplace, which has different expressions and experiences for men and women. Men who have been assaulted in the workplace are mainly assaulted within the workplace by their bosses, which is explained by the social tendency to naturalize or use violence as a way of dealing with conflict. While women have been assaulted more frequently in other workspaces in a private manner, a situation linked to the intimate condition that is socially given to violence against women in relational dynamics, including at work. Given the work conditions of people in a situation of human mobility, which is developed mainly in public spaces through street vending and informal commerce, it became evident that social violence
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