The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread closure of schools and disruption of education systems worldwide, requiring unprecedented adaptation to ensure learning continuity for students. In place of classroom learning, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been adopted to support online distance learning – with mixed results. While Caribbean governments have piloted a range of online learning modalities, many children in the subregion, especially those from poor and rural households, were not able to leverage those facilities. As a result of a lack of access to the Internet …
The goal of this study is to analyse the impact of the economic crisis in Mexico on the labour market for women. The analysis is carried out using data from the National Urban Employment Survey (ENEU) and the National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) for 1987–2016 and applying the decomposition of wage differentials technique proposed by Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991 and 1993). Key findings include persistent gender wage gaps in the country, albeit with a slight downward trend, explained largely by unobservable factors, with countercyclical patterns.…
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el mercado laboral femenino ante los efectos de la crisis económica en México. El análisis se realiza sobre la base de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo Urbano (ENEU) y la Encuesta Nacional de Ocupación y Empleo (ENOE) correspondientes al período 1987-2016 y la aplicación de la técnica de descomposición salarial propuesta por Juhn, Murphy y Pierce (1991 y 1993). Entre los resultados más relevantes se encontró que la desigualdad salarial por razón de género persiste en el país, aunque con una ligera tendencia a la baja, explicada en mayor medida por…
Disaster displacement and environmental migration are among the most serious humanitarian challenges facing the Caribbean. As a subregion of small island developing States (SIDS) which are vulnerable and prone to extreme weather events and the impacts of climate change, the Caribbean is constantly faced with population displacement resulting from these events. Individuals experience these migration processes uniquely on account of their gender-specific inequalities, vulnerabilities, and access to resources and opportunities. It is critical to understand how the consequences of environmental mi…
No contexto atual de múltiplas crises por causa da pandemia de COVID-19 (doença causada pelo novo coronavírus), o Compromisso de Santiago, adotado pelos Estados membros da Comissão Econômica para a América Latina e o Caribe (CEPAL) na XIV Conferência Regional sobre a Mulher da América Latina e do Caribe em 2020, adquire especial relevância como ferramenta regional para abordar as causas estruturais da desigualdade de gênero e adotar políticas de resposta à pandemia no curto, médio e longo prazo. No Compromisso de Santiago os governos da região decidiram implementar políticas anticíclicas sensí…
In the current context of multiple crises caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Santiago Commitment, adopted by the member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) at the fourteenth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020,2 is particularly relevant as a regional tool to address the structural causes of gender inequality and to foster policies to respond to the pandemic in the short, medium and long term. In the Santiago Commitment, the governments of the region agreed to implement gender-se…
En el contexto actual de múltiples crisis a causa de la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19), el Compromiso de Santiago1, adoptado por los Estados miembros de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en la XIV Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe en 2020, cobra especial relevancia como herramienta regional para abordar las causas estructurales de la desigualdad de género e impulsar políticas de respuesta a la pandemia a corto, mediano y largo plazo. En el Compromiso de Santiago los Gobiernos de la región acordaron implementar polít…
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on employment and labor conditions for women in Latin America and the Caribbean, generating a setback of more than a decade in terms of the progress achieved in labor market participation.
The rate of job market participation by women was at 46% in 2020, while for men it was 69%. It is further estimated that the unemployment rate for women reached 12% in 2020, a percentage that rises to 22.2% if we factor in women’s participation in the labor force in 2019. In 2020 there was a mass exodus of women from the labor force, who ha…
La crisis generada por la pandemia del COVID-19 impactó negativamente en la ocupación y en las condiciones laborales de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe, generando un retroceso de más de una década en los avances logrados en materia de participación laboral.
La tasa de participación laboral de las mujeres se situó en 46% en 2020, mientras que la de los hombres en 69%. Se calcula, además, que la tasa de desocupación de las mujeres llegó al 12% en 2020, porcentaje que se eleva al 22,2% si se asume la misma tasa de participación laboral de las mujeres de 2019. En 2020, se registró una co…
A atual conjuntura é marcada pelo enfrentamento da crise sanitária provocada pelo COVID-19 e busca da recuperação da atividade econômica, dos empregos e da qualidade de vida das pessoas no Brasil e no mundo. Aos aspectos conjunturais, somam-se os desafios estruturais tais como: os limites planetários, a emergência climática e as iniquidades, notadamente as de gênero. É preciso construir um novo estilo de desenvolvimento, em cujo centro estejam a igualdade e a sustentabilidade.
O objetivo deste relatório é contribuir para o debate crítico acerca das políticas e medidas ligadas ao enfrentamento …
This article is a contribution to the debate on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on
gender inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on women’s
economic autonomy. Through a review of the contributions of feminist economics
and an analysis of the empirical evidence, it identifies a deterioration in the indicators
associated with women’s incomes and their participation in the labour market. The
sexual division of labour is deepening in the region, endangering the scant progress
made regarding women’s economic autonomy in the pre-crisis years. It warns about
gender biases in…
Este artículo contribuye al debate sobre los efectos de la crisis causada por la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) en las desigualdades de género en América Latina y el Caribe, con foco en la autonomía económica de las mujeres. Mediante una revisión de los aportes de la economía feminista y un análisis de la evidencia empírica se constata un deterioro de los indicadores asociados al vínculo de las mujeres con el mercado laboral y los ingresos. La división sexual del trabajo se está profundizando en la región y pone en riesgo los escasos avances en términos de autonomía económic…
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