Este libro analiza la organización de los cuidados en Nicaragua y muestra cambios pero también continuidades paralelas a las profundas transformaciones económicas, sociales y políticas que experimentó el país durante los ...

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered ...

Durante las últimas dos décadas, la masiva participación laboral femenina ha tenido lugar de la mano de una relativa permanencia en cómo se distribuye el trabajo no remunerado que necesariamente tiene lugar en las familias. ...

Can poverty and gender relations be disentangled? Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have spread throughout Latin America and beyond based on the claim that they are an effective social policy tool to combat poverty. ...

In Latin American countries with historically strong social policy regimes (such as those in the Southern Cone), neoliberal policies are usually blamed for the increased burden of female unpaid work. However, studying the ...

The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global ...

¿En qué medida las transferencias condicionadas (TMC), programas “estrella” de la nueva generación de la política social latinoamericana, inhiben o promueven mayores grados de igualdad de género? Usando un instrumento ...

Do social policies in Latin America promote or discourage distribution? And if they do promote distribution, are coalitions a prerequisite? Drawing from a typology of welfare regimes elaborated for 18 Latin American ...