El Gobierno de México y la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) firmarán el viernes 13 de junio, en el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, el acuerdo de sede para la celebración de la XVI Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe del 12 al 15 de agosto en Ciudad de México.
La ceremonia, que tendrá lugar entre las 10:00 y las 11:15 horas (GMT-6) de México, contará con la participación de la Subsecretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, María Teresa Mercado; el Secretario Ejecutivo de la CEPAL, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs; la Secretaria de las…
The focus of this report is the work-life balance in the United States and how to improve it to increase women’s participation in the workforce as the country navigates the policy challenges of a growing care economy.…
This edition of the Conference focused on “Horizons and Transformations for Equality” and served as a space for dialogue on care and progress towards gender equality and sustainable development. The Division for Gender Affairs of ECLAC took part in central panels and co-organized the Thematic Forum “Critical Perspectives on Care, Gender Equality and Social Justice,” where the importance of advancing towards a Care Society and promoting exchanges among public policymaking institutions was highlighted.…
Esta versión de la Conferencia se centró en los “Horizontes y transformaciones para la igualdad” y fue un espacio de diálogo sobre el cuidado y los avances hacia la igualdad de género y el desarrollo sostenible. La División de Asuntos de Género de la CEPAL participó en paneles centrales y en la organización del Foro Temático "Miradas críticas sobre el cuidado, la igualdad de género y la justicia social" donde se expuso la importancia de avanzar hacia la Sociedad el Cuidado e incentivar el intercambio entre instituciones formuladoras de políticas públicas. …
This paper explores the multifaceted challenges of achieving work-life balance in the United States as the country navigates the policy challenges of a growing care economy, particularly focusing on the persistent gender disparities, economic policies, and societal expectations that shape this issue. Women's participation in the labour force has been a major driver of economic growth, yet the absence of supportive policies like paid parental leave and affordable childcare hinders their full engagement and limits national economic potential. The United Sates continues to lag other develope…
The publication “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Regional Gender Agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean: Gender Indicators of the Dominican Republic, 2024” provides an overview of the current progress toward gender equality, based on gender indicators for monitoring the SDGs in the Dominican Republic.…
La publicación “La Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible y la Agenda Regional de Género en América Latina y el Caribe: indicadores de género de la República Dominicana a 2024” muestra una descripción de la situación actual de avance hacia la igualdad de género sobre la base de los indicadores de género para el seguimiento de los ODS en la República Dominicana. …
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 de…
Bridges for gender equality between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany: Criteria and priorities for a regional feminist development cooperation policy presents the outcomes of the project “Success criteria for a feminist development cooperation policy specific to Latin America and the Caribbean” developed under the Strategic Alliance between the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany (BMZ) and carried out by the ECLAC Division for Gender Affairs and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Int…
La publicación “Puentes para la igualdad de género entre América Latina y el Caribe y Alemania: criterios y prioridades para la implementación de una política feminista de cooperación para el desarrollo en la región” recoge los resultados del proyecto “Criterios de éxito para una política de cooperación al desarrollo feminista específica para América Latina y el Caribe”, desarrollado en el marco de la Alianza Estratégica entre la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y el Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo de Alemania (BMZ), e implementado por la Divi…
At the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, just weeks before the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the region’s governments undertook to “implement gender-sensitive countercyclical policies, in order to mitigate the impact of economic crises”. Against this backdrop, this document analyses the impact that taxes and transfers targeted to households and their members had on the disposable income of women and men between 2019 and 2020 in Colombia, Ecuador and the Plurinational State of Bolivia —countries for which harmonize…
Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the Specialized Agencies and Other United Nations Bodies on the Advancement of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (OEM27) was held as part of the preparatory roadmap toward the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held from 12 to 15 August in Mexico City. …
La vigesimo séptima Reunión de los Organismos Especializados de la Mujer y otras organizaciones del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Adelanto de las Mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe (OEM27), como parte de la hoja de ruta preparatoria hacia la XVI Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe, que se celebrará del 12 al 15 de agosto en Ciudad de México.…
The Division for Gender Affairs of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) participated in the seminar "Closing gender gaps through fiscal management in Chile: Gender-responsive budgeting," where the study "Gender-responsive budgeting: Gender tagging 2025" was presented. The seminar also featured, among others, remarks by the Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, and the Minister of Women and Gender Equity, Antonia Orellana. Since 2023, the Ministry of Finance has received technical assistance from ECLAC and UN Women on this matter.…