Fernando Filgueira and Juliana Martínez Franzoni

Fernando Filgueira, PhD Northwestern University, is a senior researcher at CIPPEC (Argentina) and (CIESU) Uruguay. He is former program officer at ECLAC Chile where he coordinated the Social Panorama of Latin America, and UNFPA representative at Montevideo´s office. He has published extensively, both articles and books, on social structure, policy and development in Latin America.Along with Juliana Martínez Franzoni and Silke Staab, he was lead author of the 2017 Regional Report on Women´s Economic Empowerment in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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The Difficult Road Ahead: Overcoming the Stratified Home-based Care Regime in Latin America

The Difficult Road Ahead: Overcoming the Stratified Home-based Care Regime in Latin America

Between 1990 and 2013 female labour participation in Latin American went from being 14 percentage points below to 4 percentage points above the global average. Today, 7 of every 10 women between 25 and 44 years of age are part of the ...