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Conference organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “The post-pandemic recovery must untie the four structural knots of gender inequality: socioeconomic inequality and poverty; the sexual division of labor; the concentration of power and patriarchal cultural patterns,” said Alicia Bárcena during her presentation held within the framework of the series After 2030: Women leaders for a sustainable future, organized by the University Coordination for Sustainability of the UNAM, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Community Attention of that house of studies. The opening of the conference was led by Enrique Graue, Rector of UNAM, Alberto Ken Oyama Nakagawa, Secretary of Institutional Development of the university, and Alexandra Aguilar, University Coordinator towards Sustainability.
In her keynote address, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the structural problems of Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of inequality, informality and poverty, threatening the economic, physical and political autonomy of the women. “The pandemic Anhui Mobile Number List magnified the unfair sexual division of labor and the social organization of care with a decade-long setback in the labor inclusion of women and with an unequal impact on young people and, above all, on informal workers. There is an overrepresentation of women in poor households, greater unemployment and expulsion from the labor force, informality and barriers to access to financial services and digital divides,” she warned.
The senior United Nations official specified that 14 million women of working age left their jobs due to the effects of the pandemic in 9 countries in the region. For them, ECLAC proposes guaranteeing a basic emergency income for 3 and 6 months, equivalent to a poverty line. She added that 56.9% of women work in sectors with the highest risk of job loss, informality and low income, and less than 45% have access to social security. She explained that the health sector is very emblematic in the region because it is made up of 73.2% female workers. In the case of the education sector, women represent 70.4%. She stressed that women with lower incomes face a double obstacle: the lack of economic autonomy and the internet access gap. She pointed out that in the region 39% of women do not have their own income, while 46 million homes do not have an internet connection.
In her keynote address, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has deepened the structural problems of Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of inequality, informality and poverty, threatening the economic, physical and political autonomy of the women. “The pandemic Anhui Mobile Number List magnified the unfair sexual division of labor and the social organization of care with a decade-long setback in the labor inclusion of women and with an unequal impact on young people and, above all, on informal workers. There is an overrepresentation of women in poor households, greater unemployment and expulsion from the labor force, informality and barriers to access to financial services and digital divides,” she warned.
The senior United Nations official specified that 14 million women of working age left their jobs due to the effects of the pandemic in 9 countries in the region. For them, ECLAC proposes guaranteeing a basic emergency income for 3 and 6 months, equivalent to a poverty line. She added that 56.9% of women work in sectors with the highest risk of job loss, informality and low income, and less than 45% have access to social security. She explained that the health sector is very emblematic in the region because it is made up of 73.2% female workers. In the case of the education sector, women represent 70.4%. She stressed that women with lower incomes face a double obstacle: the lack of economic autonomy and the internet access gap. She pointed out that in the region 39% of women do not have their own income, while 46 million homes do not have an internet connection.
