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Progress in neurosurgery: Contributions of women neurosurgeons in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2021)
Nearly 75 years after the first woman neurosurgeon was trained in Latin America, the field of neurosurgery is changing and the prominence of women neurosurgeons within the specialty is increasing. By researching the ...
NEGOTIATING CULTURE IN THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT IN LATIN AMERICA
(2012-10-10)
My purpose in this paper is to dwell on the relevance of “culture” to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment, with an emphasis on Latin America. In order to better carry out the proposed tasks, I begin ...
Women in Leadership in Latin American Regionalism
This paper explores the role of women in leadership in Latin American Regionalism and, more specifically, the incorporation of gender commitments at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (celac), focusing ...
Women's representation in Latin American legislatures : current challenges and new directions
(Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Instituto de Ciencia Política, 2014)
The growing number of women elected to national legislatures in Latin America has led to significant scholarly attention on the consequences of women’s presence in office. In this essay, I offer a brief overview of the ...
Gender inequality, women's empowerment, and adolescent birth rates in 363 Latin American cities.
(Elsevier, 2023)
Background: Gender inequality is high in Latin America (LA). Empowering girls and young women and reducing gender gaps has been proposed as a pathway to reduce adolescent pregnancy. We investigated the associations of urban ...
Violence Against Women: Contributions from Latin America
(2020-07)
Beginning in the 1980s, Latin American feminist movements identified violence against women as one the main social problems in the region, resulting from a system of gender oppression intertwined with economic and political ...
Afrodescendent women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Debts of equality
(ECLAC, 2019-01-09)
The multiple inequalities historically experienced by women of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean form part of a complex system of structural discrimination handed down from the colonial era of slavery. ...