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25 November 2022 | Infographic

Bringing an end to violence against women and girls and femicide or feminicide: A key challenge for building a care society
Violence against women and girls and its most extreme expression, femicide, feminicide, or the gender-related killing of women and girls,1 dramatically bring to light the persistence of the structural challenges of gender inequality and gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean. The deep historical and structural roots of patriarchal, discriminatory and violent cultural patterns, grounded in a culture of privilege, have proven among the most difficult to dismantle.
25 November 2021 | Infographic

The pandemic in the shadows: femicides or feminicides in 2020 in Latin America and the Caribbean
As part of the campaign “UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women”,1 in 2020 the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, urged all governments to make prevention and redress of gender-based violence against women and girls a key part of their national response plans to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
12 July 2021 | Infographic

Time-use measurements in Latin America and the Caribbean
“Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030
29 November 2016 | Infographic

Violence against women
Violence against women is a form of discrimination, directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionally. This violence seriously inhibits women's ability to enjoy their human rights and freedoms on a bsis of equality with men.
24 de October de 2016 | Infographic

Trabajo no remunerado de las mujeres
La carga global de trabajo de las mujeres es mayor que la de los hombres. Además, la mayor parte de ese trabajo no es remunerado, lo que restringe su autonomía económica.
24 de October de 2016 | Infographic

Democracia paritaria
La democracia paritaria es un objetivo de desarrollo. En la región existe una participación desigual de las mujeres en la toma de decisiones.
24 de October de 2016 | Infographic

Feminicidio
En promedio, al menos 12 mujeres son asesinadas diariamente en la región por el hecho de ser mujeres. Los feminicidios ocasionados en el ámbito de las relaciones de pareja constituyen la forma más dramática de violencia contra la mujer.
24 de October de 2016 | Infographic

Desigualdad distributiva
La desigualdad distributiva es un obstáculo para la autonomía económica de las mujeres. Más de la mitad de las mujeres de la región no tiene ingresos propios o sus salarios son inferiores a un salario mínimo.
24 de October de 2016 | Infographic

Políticas integradas de cuidado
El trabajo de cuidado se realiza en condiciones de desprotección y desigualdad y un 94% de quienes lo ejercen de forma remunerada son mujeres. Políticas que lo distribuyan y garanticen los derechos de las personas que lo requieren y proveen son fundamentales para el desarrollo sostenible.
16 November 2015 | Infographic

Femicide
Femicide is the most dramatic expression of violence against women. According to official data from the region’s countries compiled by the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC, 1903 women were murdered because of their gender in fifteen Latin American countries and three Caribbean nations in 2014.
11 November 2015 | Infographic

Violence against women
Violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean must be addressed comprehensively by States, taking into account factors of economic, social and cultural inequality that operate in society and in the power relations between men and women.
9 September 2015 | Infographic

MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health
This infographic is part of a series produced by ECLAC to assess the degree of compliance with the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
9 September 2015 | Infographic

MDG 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
This infographic is part of a series produced by ECLAC to assess the degree of compliance with the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
27 February 2015 | Infographic

Women in Senior Positions in Major Latin American Companies
Despite the rapid incorporation of women into the labor market since the 1970s, inequalities remain in the quality of jobs and access to them. In the region this is clearly manifested in the limited presence of women in executive positions at major companies. ECLAC reviewed the situation of 72 such businesses.
13 November 2014 | Infographic

Adolescent Maternity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America and the Caribbean is the second-largest region in the world in terms of adolescent fertility, only surpassed by sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, this phenomenon is more recurrent among the lower-income population, contributing to the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
29 August 2014 | Infographic

Women’s Participation in Politics
Five female presidents govern today in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the number of women legislators, judges and mayors has increased in recent years. But these leaders represent no more than 26% of the total, on average, according to data from ECLAC’s Gender Equality Observatory. The Commission provides here the latest data on women’s participation in different spheres of political power.
7 March 2014 | Infographic

Unemployment among women and their economic autonomy