The history of women and gender in Latin America

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Gertrude M. Yeager (ed.), Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History
Review by Virginia W. Leonard, 23 February 1995.
Working Women Help Reduce General Poverty
By Gustavo Gonzalez, IPS, 23 January 1998. Women constitute one-third of the total work force in the Latin American and Caribbean region. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) report deals with sustainable development, poverty and gender and measures needed to be taken before the year 2000.
Must Women be Mothers?
By Marcela Valente, IPS, 17 March 1998. Despite the advance made by women in the past decades, the view persists in most Latin American countries that a woman must be a mother. This belief has has hindered womens rights in such areas as sex education, contraceptives and safe abortions.
International Seminar: Gender, Education and Citizenship. Influence on Public Policies
By Elizabeth Salguero, RED-ADA, Voices Rising, May 1998. Seminar was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, June 1998. Participants from the Americas. Experiences with regards to the follow up of the agreements that Governments committed to fulfil in Beijing and in Hamburg with regards to Education and Gender. Adult education.
Female Ministers Debate Globalisation
By Estrella Gutierrez, IPS, 16 September 1998. The effects of globalisation on women—as they suffer most from the social and employment exclusion of the reigning economic model.
Domestic Violence Grows With Social Inequality
Daniel Gatti, IPS, 3 December 1998. Increasingly unequal income distribution is one of the chief factors fuelling the rise in domestic violence in Latin America and the Caribbean. Overcrowded living conditions, unstable jobs and strict standards of family discipline are factors.
Domestic Abuse Still Rampant Despite New Laws
By Abraham Lama, IPS, 25 November 2000. In Latin America, Puerto Rico was the first country to adopt specific legislation to prevent domestic violence, in 1989. Next were Chile and Argentina in 1994, and Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama in 1995. Getting violence against women and girls to be considered a human rights violation was one of the achievements chalked up by the women's movement at the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna. Incidence difficult to estimate.