Uneven Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean : Are Women Being Left Behind?
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the effects of the pandemic on labor market outcomes continue to be pronounced, especially for women. Continued pronounced impacts on women’s employment are partly driven by a slow recovery of sectors that...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099355107072225031/P17583902df7680140be5c0c87e2aab7396 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37685 |
| Summary: | In Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC), the effects of the pandemic on labor market outcomes
continue to be pronounced, especially for women. Continued
pronounced impacts on women’s employment are partly driven
by a slow recovery of sectors that predominantly employ
women. Many new jobs created during the pandemic are
informal. Among the new entrants into the labor force, women
were more likely than men to land in informality. Policy
priorities include gender neutral reforms to the
organization of the labor market, plus social safety nets
and policies that aim to address gender gaps. The latter
include affordable and quality childcare, gender sensitive
social assistance, improvements in women’s access to
finance, and efforts to address persistent norms driving
unequal gender roles. |
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