Feminist Movements and the Gender Economic Agenda in Latin America

RODRÍGUEZ GUSTÁ, ANA LAURA; MADERA, NANCY

IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

Lugar: Sussex; Año: 2015 vol. 46 p. 40 - 46

0265-5012

REVISTA INDIZADA: ISI Journal Citation Reports, SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index, (entre otros). In Latin America, the Fourth Women´s World Conference, in Beijing, is a milestone in the history of the feminist and women´s movements. Certainly, twenty years have passed and despite important achievements in gender equality, in issues of economic equality, the results are still meagre and there remains a long road ahead in the fields of employment, access to resources, and social protection for women. Not surprisingly, it is in economic matters that the feminist and women´s movements have renewed their themes and strategies. This paper identifies a gender economic agenda that is broad in its transformative scope and in its determination to challenge core aspects of the current economic and social organisation. This broad perspective is a direct legacy of the Beijing Platform but, somehow, it expands it a step beyond as it incorporates new challenges for bringing gender justice by questioning the current ways of production and consumption.