particularly acute in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In terms of labor market productivity and growth potential, these … increasing women’s productivity generate a positive impact on female participation and significant increases in GDP per capita …

technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate … that up to 80% of the gender gap in hourly wages may be due to the lower returns that women receive, relative to men, on …