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Latin America and the Caribbean Gender Innovation Lab

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Publications & Resources

Recent Publications

  • Five hands on top of each other
    Blog

    In Peru, half of the women report having been victims of some form of violence by their partners, and 59 percent of Peruvians show tolerance towards violence against women, as reported by the ENARES.  

  • Desdi Llanos owns a medium-sized clothing manufacturing company in Lima
    Blog

    Gender equality and women¡¯s leadership including  women¡¯s participation in decision-making positions within households, workplaces, and communities is key to well-being and prosperity. In this blog post we shed some light on women¡¯s leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on women as business owners and as senior-level managers in the private sector.

  • Woman worker in the technical maintenance area of the Quito Subwa
    Blog

    The gender wage gap in Latin America and the Caribbean is a persistent problem. Working women in the region earn, on average, 70 cents for every dollar earned by men. But this simple statistic does not tell the whole story: it fails to capture the complexity of gender disparities in labor income.

  •  - June 2024
  • Uneven Recovery in Latin America and The Caribbean: Are Women Being Left Behind? ( & ) - July, 2022
  •  (Spanish) - May 2022
  • DIGITAGRO - Investing in Digital Technology to Increase Market Access for Women Agri-preneurs in Guatemala ( & ) - March 2022
  •  February 2022
  •  (Spanish) - July, 2021
  •  - May, 2021
  •  May 2021
  •  April 2021
  •  - October 2019
  •  - June 2016
  •  (Spanish) - 2016
  • - June 2024
  • The Nerds, the Cool and the Central:  Peer Education and Teen Pregnancy in Brazil ( & ) - June 2024
  • Facilitating the School to Work Transition of Young Women ( & ) - November 2022
  • Improving Gender Wage Equality Reduces Intimate Partner Violence in Brazil: Policy Implications for Mothers ( & ) - May 2021
  •  (Spanish) - February 2021
  • The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on the Labor Market in Latin America and the Caribbean (, , & ) - January 2021
  • Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico: Breaking Sectoral Segmentation and Increasing Profits ( & ) ¨C October 2020
  • - April, 2023
  • - February, 2023
  • - November, 2022
  • - September, 2022
  • - April, 2021
  • - June, 2021
  • - August, 2021

NEW Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) LACGIL Collection

  • Two women in a library
    Policy Brief

    Teen pregnancies are common in Latin America and the Caribbean and pose risks for the mother and her future family.
  • Document
    Policy Brief

    Teenage pregnancy rates in Brazil are among the highest in Latin America. The current rate of 68.4 per 1,000 adolescents lies well above the world average of 46 per 1,000 and is higher than the Latin American average of 65.5 per 1,000

LACGIL¡¯s work is also featured in:

  • woman working in shop
    World Bank Report

    The LAC region has achieved substantial progress on gender equality in past decades, like declines in fertility and maternal mortality, gender parity in primary school enrollment, and an increase in women¡¯s participation in the workforce and politics, among others.
  • Breaking barriers text
    World Bank Report

    The studies in this report were conducted across three regions and in ten countries (including Peru and Mexico in Latin America and the Caribbean).