Abstract
The female wage determination differs according to the family composition, mainly associated with the presence of children. Thus, the objective of the article was to analyze how much maternity can be a differential factor that penalizes women's wages in the Colombian and Brazilian labor markets. The Heckman selection model was applied using the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNADC) for Brazil and the Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH) for Colombia, referring to 2012 and 2019. Results show the maternity penalty in Colombia of 5.4% per child in 2012 and 7.9% per child in 2019; already, in the case of Brazil, 10.9% and 12.0%, respectively. So then, despite the continuous incorporation of Colombian and Brazilian women into the labor market, conventional gender social practices in the family make it difficult to reconcile work-family.
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