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Gender Equality in Peru

Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work

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The OECD review of Gender Equality in Peru: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the second of a series focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries. It compares gender gaps in labour and educational outcomes in Peru with other countries. Particular attention is put on the uneven distribution of unpaid work, and the extra burden this places on women. It investigates how policies and programmes in Peru can make this distribution more equitable. The first part of the report reviews the evidence on gender gaps and on what causes these, including the role played by attitudes. The second part develops a comprehensive framework to address these challenges, presenting a broad range of options to reduce the unpaid work burden falling on women, and to increase women’s labour income. The final part discusses the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and considers how the policy priorities of the government will have to change to address these. An earlier review in the same series has looked at gender equality policies in Chile (2021).

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Gender gaps in Peru: An international and sub-national comparison

This chapter reviews the evidence on gender gaps in economic outcomes in Peru and discusses the drivers of these gaps. It starts with an overview of gender gaps in educational and labour market outcomes across different dimensions (enrolment and out-of-school rates, skills outcomes, along with labour market participation, gender pay gaps and the interactions between motherhood and access to better quality jobs). It then discusses the main contributing factors to these gaps (unbalanced unpaid care and domestic work, the access to care facilities, attitudes and gender-based stereotypes, and legal barriers). In addition to comparing Peru with other Latin American and OECD countries, the chapter addresses the articulation of gender differences across socio‑economic groups (urban vis-à-vis rural differences, along with differences across levels of education, age cohorts and levels of incomes).

English Also available in: Spanish

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