Achieving gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean brings significant societal and economic benefits, including reduced social disparities, better access to education, higher incomes, and greater participation in the workforce. Collaboration between academia, business, and government is essential in driving these outcomes, creating more inclusive and productive economies. Gender Equity and Economic Development highlights how aligning policy, practice, and strategy can foster equitable growth across the region.
This comprehensive volume is structured around three key lines of inquiry. The first section investigates the progress of public policies in promoting gender equity, offering perspectives on gender equity practices, female entrepreneurship in Colombia, and the broader implications of intersectionality. The second section delves into gender equity across different socioeconomic sectors, focusing on issues like the gender gap in social and financial security, the balance between reproductive and remunerated work, and a decade of labor market analysis for women in Colombia. The final section examines gender equity as a strategic component within productive organizations, exploring how businesses integrate gender equity into their strategies and the specific experiences of industries like tourism in the region. Highlighting the impact of gender-focused public policies, strategies, and organizational practices, this work invites readers to reflect on the transformative potential of gender equity for a more inclusive and prosperous society.
Bringing together insights from experienced researchers and multidisciplinary perspectives, this collected edition is essential for academics, policymakers, business leaders, and anyone committed to understanding the vital role of gender equity in economic development.
Bringing together insights from experienced researchers and multidisciplinary perspectives, this collected edition is essential for academics, policymakers, business leaders, and anyone committed to understanding the vital role of gender equity in economic development.
Part
1. Advances in gender equality as a contribution to growth and
development from public policies in Latin America.
Chapter
1. Certification mark as a public policy for female entrepreneurship
in Colombia; Edel Rocķo Lasso Silva, Martha Inés Moreno Medel, and Lenyd
Angélica Riańo Martķnez
Chapter
2. Perspectives on the Practical Implications of Gender Equality in
Latin America; Johanna Rosalķ Reyes-Reinoso and Angel Aurelio Morocho-Macas
Chapter
3. Intersectionality is a perspective that invites us to link
geographical spaces, disciplines and agendas; Maria Isabel Villada Gil and
Yessica Alexandra Gómez Zuluaga
Part
2. Perspectives of gender equity in different socioeconomic sectors in
Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter
4. Women in the daily grind between reproductive labor and paid work
in an urban poverty area in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. Culture,
redistribution, and recognition; Célica Esther Cįnovas-Marmo
Chapter
5. 10 Years of the labor market in Colombia for women; José Mauricio
Salazar Sįenz and Juliana Morad Acero
Chapter
6. Gender gap in social and financial security: Effects of government
support in Mexico for women in their family environment; Alfredo Omar Palafox
Roca and Įngel Wilhelm Vįzquez Garcķa
Part
3. Gender equality as a strategy from productive organizations
Chapter
7. Gender equity and business performance; Luz Esperanza Bohórquez
Arévalo
Chapter
8. Gender equity in educational institutions: Strategies and
experiences in Mexico and Costa Rica; Jonathan Salas Segura and Leticia
Téllez Hernįndez
Chapter
9. Labour income gap in the tourism sector in Colombia. A gender
equity approach; Gloria Nancy Rķos Yepes, Tatiana Polania-Cerinza, Marisol
Salamanca-Olmos, Laura Cristancho-Giraldo, and Sebastiįn Chacón-Marķn
Gloria Nancy Rķos Yepes, Marisol Salamanca Olmos and Laura Cristancho Giraldo are Economists and Professors of Economics at the Faculty of Business, Management and Sustainability, Politécnico Grancolombiano, Colombia.
