Closing Gender Gaps in the Southern Cone: An Untapped Potential for Growth (Executive Summary)

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors:	Verónica Frisancho
Language:	English
Published:	Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:	Women, Labor Market, Gender Gap, Female Employment, Education, Human Capital, Gender Equality, Gender Discrimination, Workforce and Employment, Economy, I26 - Returns to Education, J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination, J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity, J46 - Informal Labor Markets, 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, I24 - Education and Inequality, women labor market participation;gender gaps;Investments in female human capital,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004177 https://publications.iadb.org/en/closing-gender-gaps-southern-cone-untapped-potential-growth-executive-summary
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