| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Latin American development forum series |
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World Bank e-Library.
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| Contents |
Foreword / by Ronald Oaxaca -- Acknowledgements -- Overview -- Education : girls outpaced boys -- Some basics : the methodology and the data -- Gender earnings gaps in the region : more schooling but lower earnings -- The mostly unexplained gender earnings gap : Peru, 1997-2009 -- Is segregation at the workplace a culprit for earnings gaps? : Mexico, 1994-2004 -- Low female participation and high males : overtime : Chile, 1992-2009 -- The resilient wage gap : Colombia, 1994-2006 -- Equality promotion in the country with the highest earnings gaps of the region : brazil, 1996-2006 -- Gender wage gaps in a country with a large Indigenous population : Ecuador, 2003-2007 -- Higher gender wage gaps among the poorest : Central American countries -- The understudied caribbean : Barbados and Jamaica -- Overlapping disadvantages : ethnicity and earnings gaps -- Efforts for equality promotion that start to show results : Brazil, 1996-2006 -- No good jobs and lower earnings : Ecuador, 2000-2007 -- Differentials for big minorities : Guatemala, 2000-2006 -- As a way of summarizing and outlining some policy options |
| Summary |
After a sustained economic growth period at the end of the last century and the beginning of this one, Latin America still faces high inequality and lower well-being indicators among women, afro-descendants, and Indigenous peoples. This is a period in which the world and particularly Latin America has experienced important changes regarding the role of women and men. Marriage, education and work decisions have evolved and, as a result, women?s visibility at home, at school, in the labor markets and in society have evolved as well. But there are still, however, important challenges in the labor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Sex discrimination against women -- Economic aspects -- Latin America
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Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects.
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Discrimination -- Economic aspects -- Latin America
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Discrimination -- Economic aspects
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Ethnic relations -- Economic aspects
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Sex discrimination against women -- Economic aspects
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ñopo, Hugo.
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| LC no. |
2012016946 |
| ISBN |
9780821394960 |
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0821394967 |
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