Social Policy and Gender Equality/Política Social e Igualdad de Género

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Latin American countries are coming from a long decade of expansionary social policy that roughly started in 2000. As part of this wave, most Latin American countries witnessed significant advances in state social protection aimed at women, both in terms of transfers and services. Cases in point are conditional cash transfers directed to mothers; minimum pensions that constitute an important protection for non and low-income earning women; and the emergence of new care policies, like care systems and parental leaves. However, reaching women is a different matter from actually altering gender hierarchies and promoting gender equality. This panel explores progress and setbacks in the distribution of income, services and time and therefore, the overall role social policy played in either reinforcing or altering gender inequality as well as policy determinants behind both.

Sub Track

• Gender and Feminisms

Session Organizer

• Nora Nagels, Université du Québec à Montréal

Chair

• Christina Ewig, University of Minnesota

Discussant

• Nora Nagels, Université du Québec à Montréal

Individual Presentations

• 1) A Long Decade of Gendering Social Policy in Latin America: Transformative Steps and Inequality Traps - Camila Arza, CONICET/CIEPP; Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Universidad de Costa Rica

• La incorporación del enfoque de igualdad e equidad de género en la política social. Un campo de tensiones y negociaciones. El caso del sector educación - Fanni Muñoz Cabrejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

• 3) The Right and Gender Policies: The Expansion of Maternity Leave under the Piñera Administration in Chile - Rossana Castiglioni, Universidad Diego Portales