Latin America’s Progress on Gender Equality: Poor Women Workers Are Still Left Behind

The Millennium DevelopmentGoals seek to achieve gender equality by the year 2015 (see MDG #3). The set of indicators proposed to track progress towards this goal encompasses the social, political and economic spheres. We focus on an important economic indicator, i.e., the share of women in wage empl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Zepeda, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15471
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15471
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Latin America
Gender Equality
Poor Women Workers
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Sumario:The Millennium DevelopmentGoals seek to achieve gender equality by the year 2015 (see MDG #3). The set of indicators proposed to track progress towards this goal encompasses the social, political and economic spheres. We focus on an important economic indicator, i.e., the share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector. (...)