E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.1 page 15 D. Employment 48. Employment is one field in which there is overt racial discrimination. There is virtually a racial division of labour that prevents Blacks and people of mixed parentage from practising certain professions. Popular wisdom holds that a Black can only succeed in Brazil as a footballer or samba dancer. As a result, senior-level and intermediate positions (both in the public administration and in private enterprises) are held by Whites, followed by people of mixed parentage and Blacks, who, depending on the lightness of their skin, are managers, receptionists, cashiers, waiters, caretakers, domestic employees and bus-drivers or taxi-drivers. Occupational and social mobility are extremely low among Afro-Brazilians on account of the fundamental handicap of a lack of education and training. Even if he has the same qualifications as a White, an Afro-Brazilian will be discriminated against; wording such as "wanted: person of good appearance" in a job advertisement is also an indirect way of excluding Afro-Brazilians from certain jobs. In addition, in terms of wages, a White worker earns 2.5 times more than a Black worker and four times more than a female Black worker. 22/ E. Housing 49. The majority of Afro-Brazilians live in unhealthy premises and districts, without sewers, running water or electricity. They make up the majority of the inhabitants of the favelas which are built of makeshift materials on the outskirts of the major cities. Each year, during the rainy season, landslides carry away shacks belonging to poor families in the favelas perched on the hillsides, killing many people, most of whom are Afro-Brazilians. On 31 May 1995 a landslide killed 28 people in the Arraial do Retiro district in Salvador in the State of Bahia. Most homeless people who sleep in the streets of Brazil’s big cities are Black or of mixed parentage. F. The media 50. As a rule, advertising and the media only feature White people. On television channels, the vast majority of journalists are White, in contrast with the United Kingdom and the United States where television channels have a practice of multiethnic and multicultural participation. G. The situation of coloured women 51. The Inter-American Trade Union Conference on Racial Equality, held in Salvador on 20 November 1994, declared that Black women receive the lowest salaries (four times lower than those of a White man), are employed in the most unhealthy locations, work a triple working day and face threefold discrimination. For these reasons, Black women are a barometer of Brazilian society: the degree of political evolution of Brazilian society is directly related to the political conquests of Black women. 23/ 52. The vast majority of Black women are the State of Bahia 90 per cent of domestic of them receive less than the minimum wage samba dancers in nightclubs. They make up (street vendors, for example). Many Black domestic servants (for example, in servants are black and 80 per cent of 110 reals), 24/ nursemaids or the majority of the informal sector domestic servants are ill-treated