Latin America and the Caribbean has made considerable efforts to achieve gender equality. Now the region must consolidate advances and fulfil commitments by accelerating progress towards substantive equality and the full exercise of rights for all women and girls.

This document analyses the gender indicators for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda, in synchrony with the Regional Gender Agenda of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean. It focuses on Goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 17.

Achieving more productive, inclusive and sustainable development in the region has been challenging, and progress towards the SDGs has been inadequate or too slow in most of the countries. They will need to work faster to overcome the four structural challenges of gender equality: (i) socioeconomic inequality and the persistence of poverty; (ii) discriminatory, violent and patriarchal cultural norms and the predominance of a culture of privilege; (iii) the sexual division of labour and the unfair social organization of care; and (iv) the concentration of power and hierarchical relations in the public sphere.