Women's economic autonomy
Economic autonomy refers to women’s ability to access and control resources such as their own income, assets, productive, financial and technological resources and time. It takes into account paid and unpaid work and the impact of the unequal gender distribution thereof.
Activities
Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Antigua and Barbuda
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.
Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Grenada
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.
Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.
Skill WAVE: Workshop for Action, Vision and Entrepreneurship - Saint Kitts and Nevis
ECLAC Caribbean will be hosting a series of capacity building workshops, meant to build entrepreneurship skills among target groups in each country. The workshops should provide tools necessary to enhance entrepreneurship and related business activities, specifically targeted toward youth and female entrepreneurs.
News
Latin America and the Caribbean Makes Headway with Concrete Actions for Gender Equality and the Care Society
Today marked the end of the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Chile using a hybrid format.
Ministers and Senior Authorities Will Meet to Discuss Implementation of the Tlatelolco Commitment and Participate in a Consultation Prior to the CSW70
The Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will take place on December 1-2 using a hybrid format from ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile.
Care Is the Future: Latin America and the Caribbean Launch the Decade of the Care Society
By Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women; José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Secretary of ECLAC; and Citlalli Hernández Mora, Secretary for Women of Mexico. Published in El País (Spain), on 30/09/2025.
Latin American and Caribbean Countries Approved the Tlatelolco Commitment, which Establishes a Decade of Action to Achieve Substantive Gender Equality and the Care Society
Today the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean ended in Mexico City, having been organized by ECLAC in coordination with UN Women, under the leadership of the Government of Mexico as Chair.