ECLAC-OECD Workshop Women in trade in Latin America and the Caribbean: Data availability and methodologies

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Date

8 May 2025, 9am - 8 May 2025, 5pm

Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

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By registration

Women and men are affected differently by international trade and trade policies due to gender gaps, including disparities in participation in paid employment and entrepreneurship. To identify and estimate these differences, it is necessary to collect data that are disaggregated by gender. Specifically, gender-differentiated data is essential for analysing women’s participation in trade and is a key input into better, more granular policymaking.

In recent years, there has been an international impetus to enhance data collection related to engagement in the trade of sub-groups within society, including women. One of the four pillars of the WTO Informal Working Group on Trade and Gender's work plan, established in 2020, was to promote the use of gender-differentiated data and enhance understanding of data methodologies. Several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have combined existing datasets or initiated new surveys to shed light on women's engagement in trade and the differential impacts of trade on women and men.

This workshop aims to examine available data collection efforts and methodologies used to measure women’s engagement in trade. The target audience of the workshop comprises officials from trade ministries, statistical offices, trade promotion agencies, and other relevant agencies in Latin America and the Caribbean who are engaged in collecting and using trade data through a gender lens.

09:00	Welcome remarks and introduction: Keiji Inoue, Officer in charge, International Trade Division, ECLAC Annabelle Mourougane, Head of Division, Statistics and Data Directorate, OECD Álvaro Denia Alonso, Economic and Trade Counselor, Embassy of Spain in Chile
09:20	Session 1: What gender-differentiated data tell us about women in trade Gender-differentiated data: Comparison of data collection methods – Jane Korinek, Senior Trade Policy Analyst, OECD Trade in Employment by characteristics data, Isabel Araújo Cabronero, Junior Policy Analyst, OECD Characteristics of women's participation in export employment in Latin American and Caribbean countries, Nicole Bidegain, Social Affairs Officer, Gender Affairs Division, ECLAC Data on women-led export firms: methodologies and results, Alicia Frohmann, Consultant, ECLAC Moderator: Nanno Mulder, Chief, International Trade Unit, ECLAC
10:30	Q&A
10:45	Coffee break
11:15	Session 2: Presentation of results of Latin American country studies Brazil: Diego Afonso de Castro, General Coordinator of Foreign Trade Studies, Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services Chile: Ricardo Mayer, Director General of Bilateral Economic Affairs and Director of Research, SUBREI Dominican Republic: Carolina Pérez, Director - Market Intelligence, Pro-Dominicana Peru: Javier Martínez, Director General de la Dirección General de Investigación y Estudios, MINCETUR Mexico: INEGI Paraguay: Ximena Olmos, ECLAC Moderator: Jane Korinek (OECD)
12:30	Q&A
13:00	Lunch
14:30	Session 3: Group discussion based on guiding questions (part 1) Moderator: Alicia Frohmann (ECLAC) Participants: data experts from Session 2 + Xinia Escamilla Calvo, Economic Analyst, Procomer, Costa Rica
15:45	Coffee break
16:00	Session 3 – Group discussion based on guiding questions (part 2) Moderator: Ximena Olmos (ECLAC) Participants: data experts from Session 2 + Xinia Escamilla Calvo, Economic Analyst, Procomer, Costa Rica
17:00	Wrap-up (ECLAC): Challenges and recommendations for future analysis
17:30	End of workshop

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

https://www.oecd.org/
+33 1 45 24 82 00

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Nanno Mulder

nanno.mulder@cepal.org
(56-2) 2210 2198

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