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Latin American women are making great strides. The culture is not keeping up
Women [∈Latin America] have made great progress towards equality with men, especially ∈ schools, workplaces and politics. But social attitudes have changed more slowly. Women’s ambitions are often belittled: hostility towards them is common. Raw statistics tell a story of female advancement; machista culture has yet to catch up.
In the past quarter-century, the proportion of women ∈ the workforce has risen more ∈Latin America than ∈ any other region. True, they typically hold jobs that require little skill and pay low salaries: domestic work is the largest source of female employment. But women now spend more years ∈ school than men, which suggests that their prospects will improve. A handful have climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. […]
Women are still scarce ∈Latin American boardrooms. Not ∈ politics however. […] Several countries, including Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, have adopted quotas for women on parties’ lists of candidates. In the past decade, voters have elected women to the presidencies of Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica as well as Argentina. […]
Yet Latin Americans are less likely than people ∈ any other region to say that women are treated with dignity. Only a third say women are respected,[…], just a fifth of people say women are appreciated […] Electing women to high office is apparently no cure for sexism.[…]. In Latin America it feeds off a culture of machismo, a chest-thumping sort of masculinity that can either smother women ∈ domesticity or degrade them.[…]
There are signs, though, that attitudes may at last be starting to change.[…] Governments are starting to do a better job of fighting violence and promoting women’s equality at work.[…] Businesses are beginning to improve conditions for working women.[...]All this is encouraging. But it may be a while before Latin America’s culture catches up with the achievements of its women.
The Economist, August 22nd 2015
In the past quarter-century, the proportion of women ∈ the workforce has risen more ∈Latin America than ∈ any other region. True, they typically hold jobs that require little skill and pay low salaries: domestic work is the largest source of female employment. But women now spend more years ∈ school than men, which suggests that their prospects will improve. A handful have climbed to the top of the corporate ladder. […]
Women are still scarce ∈Latin American boardrooms. Not ∈ politics however. […] Several countries, including Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, have adopted quotas for women on parties’ lists of candidates. In the past decade, voters have elected women to the presidencies of Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica as well as Argentina. […]
Yet Latin Americans are less likely than people ∈ any other region to say that women are treated with dignity. Only a third say women are respected,[…], just a fifth of people say women are appreciated […] Electing women to high office is apparently no cure for sexism.[…]. In Latin America it feeds off a culture of machismo, a chest-thumping sort of masculinity that can either smother women ∈ domesticity or degrade them.[…]
There are signs, though, that attitudes may at last be starting to change.[…] Governments are starting to do a better job of fighting violence and promoting women’s equality at work.[…] Businesses are beginning to improve conditions for working women.[...]All this is encouraging. But it may be a while before Latin America’s culture catches up with the achievements of its women.
The Economist, August 22nd 2015
Women are still scarce ∈Latin American boardrooms. Not ∈ politics however. […] Several countries, including Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, have adopted quotas for women on parties’ lists of candidates. In the past decade, voters have elected women to the presidencies of Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica as well as Argentina. […]
Yet Latin Americans are less likely than people ∈ any other region to say that women are treated with dignity. Only a third say women are respected,[…], just a fifth of people say women are appreciated […] Electing women to high office is apparently no cure for sexism.[…]. In Latin America it feeds off a culture of machismo, a chest-thumping sort of masculinity that can either smother women ∈ domesticity or degrade them.[…]
There are signs, though, that attitudes may at last be starting to change.[…] Governments are starting to do a better job of fighting violence and promoting women’s equality at work.[…] Businesses are beginning to improve conditions for working women.[...]All this is encouraging. But it may be a while before Latin America’s culture catches up with the achievements of its women.
The Economist, August 22nd 2015
Yet Latin Americans are less likely than people ∈ any other region to say that women are treated with dignity. Only a third say women are respected,[…], just a fifth of people say women are appreciated […] Electing women to high office is apparently no cure for sexism.[…]. In Latin America it feeds off a culture of machismo, a chest-thumping sort of masculinity that can either smother women ∈ domesticity or degrade them.[…]
There are signs, though, that attitudes may at last be starting to change.[…] Governments are starting to do a better job of fighting violence and promoting women’s equality at work.[…] Businesses are beginning to improve conditions for working women.[...]All this is encouraging. But it may be a while before Latin America’s culture catches up with the achievements of its women.
The Economist, August 22nd 2015
There are signs, though, that attitudes may at last be starting to change.[…] Governments are starting to do a better job of fighting violence and promoting women’s equality at work.[…] Businesses are beginning to improve conditions for working women.[...]All this is encouraging. But it may be a while before Latin America’s culture catches up with the achievements of its women.
The Economist, August 22nd 2015
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