Women in the digital economy: breaking through the equality threshold. Summary

Prefacio Prepared by ECLAC for the twelfth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, this document systematizes and describes various dimensions that shape the way the region's women participate in the labour market, and how they access and use the different elements of the digital economy. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) provide essential support across all economic, political, cultural and social activity, as well as being a production sector in their own right. As such, they are potential allies in the drive to achieve equality by helping reduce the gender inequities which constitute not only a gender digital gap but also a social divide. Public policies on gender equality must take into account the key and interconnected dimensions of economy, well-being and technology if they are to be capable of providing an ambitious and innovative response to the challenges of today's society. The core argument in the reflection on ICTs and gender equality thus has to do with how women engage in processes of change and sustainable development in the countries, which cannot be achieved without equal participation by men and women. From this perspective, the gender digital gap offers a specific opportunity to tackle gender inequalities in the region.

Les femmes et l'économie numérique: franchir le seuil de l'inégalité. Synthèse

Le document aborde le débat sur le changement structurel et la place des femmes dans la société de l’information, ainsi que la capacité de développement de leur autonomie dans le cadre de la mise en place d’un nouveau paradigme technologique. Il dresse un bilan de la situation des femmes sur le marché de l’emploi et passe en revue, sur la base des données des enquêtes disponibles, les indicateurs d’accès à et d’utilisation de l’Internet de façon à mesurer les écarts existants entre hommes et femmes dans différentes sphères sociales et géographiques.

Temario provisional

Temario provisional de la Novena Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe que se celebrará en México D.F., del 10 al 12 de junio de 2004.

Temario provisional anotado

La novena Conferencia Regional tiene, además, la función de examinar la aplicación de los compromisos internacionales adquiridos en el Programa de Acción Regional para las Mujeres de América Latina y el Caribe, adoptado en la sexta Conferencia Regional en 1994 y ratificado en el 2000 en el Consenso de Lima. Asimismo, la Conferencia permitirá acordar la contribución regional a la cuadragésima novena sesión de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer, que debe celebrarse en marzo del 2005.

Annotated provisional agenda

The ninth session of the Regional Conference also has the function of reviewing the implementation of the international commitments undertaken in the Regional Programme of Action for the Women of Latin America and the Caribbean, adopted at the sixth session of the Regional Conference in 1994 and reaffirmed in 2000 in the Lima Consensus. The ninth session of the Regional Conference will also give the participants an opportunity to agree on the regional input to be provided to the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March 2005.

Caminos hacia la equidad de género en América Latina y el Caribe

Incluye Bibliografía

Actividades de la Secretaría de la CEPAL relacionadas con la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina y el Caribe (1o de enero de 2000 al 31 de diciembre de 2003)

Incluye Bibliografía

Activities of the ECLAC Secretariat to support the integration of a gender perspective into the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean (1 January 2000 to 31 December 2003)

Includes bibliography

Informe de la Novena Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe = Report of the Ninth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

The ninth session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was convened by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC in compliance with ECLAC resolution 557(XXVI); and was held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 10 to 12 June 2004.

Hacia un horizonte paritario en América Latina: representación política de las mujeres

Incluye Bibliografía

A gender parity horizon in Latin America: the political representation of women

Includes bibliography

Vers un horizon paritaire en Amérique Latine: la répresentation politique des femmes

Inclut la bibliographie

Documentos presentados a la Décima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe = Documents presented at the Tenth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Incluye Bibliografía