A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas

International and regional organizations, with special emphasis on those comprising the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leadership, as well as the feminist and women’s movement, have highlighted that the presence of women in key decision-making spaces is essential to ensuring that the response...

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spelling cepal-11362-48437 A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas NU. CEPAL taskFORCE MUJERES ADELANTO DE LA MUJER IGUALDAD DE GENERO PARTICIPACION POLITICA LIDERAZGO DEMOCRACIA TOMA DE DECISIONES REPRESENTACION POLITICA WOMEN WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT GENDER EQUALITY POLITICAL PARTICIPATION LEADERSHIP DEMOCRACY DECISION-MAKING POLITICAL REPRESENTATION International and regional organizations, with special emphasis on those comprising the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leadership, as well as the feminist and women’s movement, have highlighted that the presence of women in key decision-making spaces is essential to ensuring that the response and recovery from these crises are sustainable and do not deepen pre-existing gaps1. They have also stressed that the achievement of women’s rights and the participation of women in decision-making processes are fundamental to democratic governance. The aspiration is to achieve a “parity democracy” in which sub-stantive equality and parity between men and women become the backbone of the transformations promoted by inclu-sive States. This document, developed jointly by the 13 institutions composing the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leader-ship, seeks to contribute to these reflections and call for action to promote women’s leadership and parity democracy in the Americas. 1 Introduction .-- 2 Women’s Leadership in International and Regional Conventions and Commitments .-- 3 Why Women’s Leadership and Participation are Important .-- 4 Women in Decision-Making Processes .-- 5 Guarantees for Women’s Political Participation and Parity .-- 6 Structural Barriers to Women’s Leadership. 6.1.Concentration of Power and Restrictions on the Political Participation of Women. 6.2.Patriarchal Cultural Patterns: Gender Stereotypes and Biases. 6.3.The Continuum of Violence against Women in Political Life. 6.4.Unfair Sexual Division of Labor and the Social Organization of Care. 6.5.Economic Inequality. 6.6.Threats to Women’s Full and Effective Participation and Decision-Making in Public Life .-- 7 A Call for Action to Accelerate Efforts .-- 8 In Closing. 2022-11-08T12:28:51Z 2022-11-08T12:28:51Z 2022-11-08 Texto Documento Completo https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48437 LC/TS.2022/89 en .pdf application/pdf AMERICAS AMERICAS ECLAC taskFORCE
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title A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
spellingShingle A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
MUJERES
ADELANTO DE LA MUJER
IGUALDAD DE GENERO
PARTICIPACION POLITICA
LIDERAZGO
DEMOCRACIA
TOMA DE DECISIONES
REPRESENTACION POLITICA
WOMEN
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
GENDER EQUALITY
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
LEADERSHIP
DEMOCRACY
DECISION-MAKING
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
title_short A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
title_full A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
title_fullStr A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
title_full_unstemmed A Call to Action to Boost Women’s Leadership and Parity Democracy in the Americas
title_sort call to action to boost women’s leadership and parity democracy in the americas
topic MUJERES
ADELANTO DE LA MUJER
IGUALDAD DE GENERO
PARTICIPACION POLITICA
LIDERAZGO
DEMOCRACIA
TOMA DE DECISIONES
REPRESENTACION POLITICA
WOMEN
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
GENDER EQUALITY
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
LEADERSHIP
DEMOCRACY
DECISION-MAKING
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
description International and regional organizations, with special emphasis on those comprising the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leadership, as well as the feminist and women’s movement, have highlighted that the presence of women in key decision-making spaces is essential to ensuring that the response and recovery from these crises are sustainable and do not deepen pre-existing gaps1. They have also stressed that the achievement of women’s rights and the participation of women in decision-making processes are fundamental to democratic governance. The aspiration is to achieve a “parity democracy” in which sub-stantive equality and parity between men and women become the backbone of the transformations promoted by inclu-sive States. This document, developed jointly by the 13 institutions composing the Inter-American Task Force on Women’s Leader-ship, seeks to contribute to these reflections and call for action to promote women’s leadership and parity democracy in the Americas.
publisher ECLAC
publishDate 2022
url https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48437
https://hdl.handle.net/11362/48437
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