Closing Gender Gaps in the Southern Cone: An Untapped Potential for Growth
Date issued
Jun 2022
Subject
Women;
Gender;
Workforce and Employment;
Financial Education;
Gender Gap;
Economy;
Children;
Gender Equality;
Female Education;
Female Labor Force
JEL code
I24 - Education and Inequality;
I26 - Returns to Education;
J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination;
J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity;
J26 - Retirement • Retirement Policies;
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development;
O19 - International Linkages to Development • Role of International Organizations;
R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity;
R14 - Land Use Patterns;
R41 - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion • Travel Time • Safety and Accidents • Transportation Noise
Country
Argentina;
Brazil;
Chile;
Paraguay;
Uruguay
Category
Monographs
In this volume, we study gender gaps in the Southern Cone countries which include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. We assess the importance of gender inequalities and present evidence on their economic consequences, their drivers, and the policy tools that can contribute to mitigating them. Gender gaps in access to public services, human capital accumulation, and the labor market limit overall productivity and economic growth, and policies that mitigate these inequalities have the potential to foster economic development and wellbeing. In our current context, a global pandemic has highlighted and even widened gender gaps, meaning policymakers are in urgent need of a new set of policies that can foster gender parity in the recovery phase. This volume is thus a timely compendium of solid evidence to design policies that can effectively tackle gender disparities in Southern Cone countries.
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