The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have made great strides towards achieving gender equality and women’s autonomy in recent years, especially on the regulatory and institutional fronts. However, although progress is undeniable and all the countries have rolled out initiatives relating to these themes, gender inequalities remain a structural feature of the region and there are still significant obstacles to the achievement of substantive equality.
Given the persistence of inequality and its strong link with the unsustainable prevailing development pattern, ECLAC has worked with La…
Los países de América Latina y el Caribe han realizado grandes avances en materia de igualdad de género y autonomía de las mujeres durante los últimos años, especialmente en el ámbito normativo e institucional. Si bien dichos avances son indiscutibles, y en todos los países se han puesto en marcha iniciativas vinculadas al tema, las desigualdades de género continúan siendo un rasgo estructural de la región y aún existen importantes desafíos que obstaculizan el logro de la igualdad sustantiva.
Dada la persistencia de la desigualdad y su fuerte vinculación con la insostenibilidad del estilo de d…
Despite the progress seen in the last decade, Afro-descendant women in Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be ignored as the possible beneficiaries of differentiated policies, they suffer poverty at higher rates than the rest of the population, they are underrepresented or absent from decision-making processes, and their right – and that of their communities – to live a life free of violence is more frequently infringed, ECLAC indicates in the recently published document Afro-descendant Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Debts of Equality (in Spanish and Portuguese only).
The st…