Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab

In Peru, half of the women report having been victims of some form of violence by their partners, and 59 percent of Peruvians show tolerance towards violence against women, as reported by the ENARES.  

Gender equality and women’s leadership including  women’s participation in decision-making positions within households, workplaces, and communities is key to well-being and prosperity. In this blog post we shed some light on women’s leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on women as business owners and as senior-level managers in the private sector.

The gender wage gap in Latin America and the Caribbean is a persistent problem. Working women in the region earn, on average, 70 cents for every dollar earned by men. But this simple statistic does not tell the whole story: it fails to capture the complexity of gender disparities in labor income.