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13 December 2023 | Infographic

Gender Equality Bulletin - No 1. Child marriages and early unions: inequality and poverty among women, girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean
Child, early and forced marriages and unions are defined as a union in which at least one of the parties is under the age of 18. The overwhelming majority of formal and informal child marriages and unions involve girls, although in some cases their male spouses are also under 18. As stated in the Joint general recommendation No. 31 of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/general comment No. 18 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on harmful practices, and Human Rights Council resolution 29/8 of 2 July 2015, on strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage, child marriage is considered a form of forced marriage, as it is practiced without the full, free and informed consent of one or both parties (United Nations, 2015b). The definition used to address this violation of the human rights of children and adolescents includes marriages involving a conjugal union recognized by legal, customary or religious norms, as well as informal conjugal unions.
22 September 2023 | Infographic

Repository on time use in Latin America and the Caribbean
Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions. Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030.
19 de July de 2023 | Infographic

Infografía. Caracterización de la inclusión financiera en la República Dominicana con una perspectiva territorial y de género
Para comparar las experiencias de las mujeres que viven en los medios rurales y de las que habitan en zonas urbanas en la República Dominicana se llevó a cabo un análisis estadístico exhaustivo utilizando la base de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Inclusión Financiera (ENIF) de 2019 y un trabajo de campo con entrevistas a profundidad, para conocer si la existencia de ciertas características —como el género, el estado civil, la edad y los ingresos—se relacionan con una mayor o menor inclusión financiera.
19 de July de 2023 | Infographic

Infografía. La brecha estructural de inclusión financiera en México: Una perspectiva territorial y del impacto de las normas sociales de género
La brecha estructural es una desigualdad que se caracteriza por su persistencia y profundidad, pueden estudiarse en una dimensión horizontal (brechas de desarrollo entre países o grupos de países) o verticales (disparidades al interior de un mismo país, por ejemplo, entre mujeres y hombres o entre áreas rurales y urbanas). Se identifican brechas de inversión y ahorro y brechas de género entre las principales brechas estructurales que afectan a países de la región.
12 July 2021 | Infographic

Time-use measurements in Latin America and the Caribbean
“Information systems: transforming data into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decisions” Pillar 9 of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030
7 March 2016 | Infographic

Situation of unpaid work and gender in the Caribbean
The unpaid care work performed primarily by women, underpins all societies, contributing to well-being, social development and economic growth. Care work involves a variety of domestic tasks, such as the preparation of food, cleaning, washing and ironing of clothes, the collection of water and fuel for cooking, as well as, the care of mostly dependant family members, including children, older persons and persons with disabilities. The time-use survey is the only available tool for measuring unpaid care work and is also a more cost effective method of collecting timely and accurate data on the gender division of labour within households and the interdependence of the paid and unpaid work undertaken by women and men.
16 November 2015 | Infographic

Femicide
Femicide is the most dramatic expression of violence against women. According to official data from the region’s countries compiled by the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean of ECLAC, 1903 women were murdered because of their gender in fifteen Latin American countries and three Caribbean nations in 2014.
27 February 2015 | Infographic

Women in Senior Positions in Major Latin American Companies
Despite the rapid incorporation of women into the labor market since the 1970s, inequalities remain in the quality of jobs and access to them. In the region this is clearly manifested in the limited presence of women in executive positions at major companies. ECLAC reviewed the situation of 72 such businesses.
29 August 2014 | Infographic

Women’s Participation in Politics
Five female presidents govern today in Latin American and Caribbean countries, and the number of women legislators, judges and mayors has increased in recent years. But these leaders represent no more than 26% of the total, on average, according to data from ECLAC’s Gender Equality Observatory. The Commission provides here the latest data on women’s participation in different spheres of political power.