Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

This document, prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Women, has been …-responsible between the State, the market, the community, and families, and between men and women. …

Women constitute the majority of the older adult population, but, with some exceptions, they are underrepresented among … pension recipients. Although progress has been made in the region with regard to women’s inclusion in non-contributory pension … programmes, these pension payments are lower and do not allow women to escape poverty. Mainstreaming the gender dimension into …