Gender and labour market: Honduras and Nicaragua

Fernández Pacheco, J. (Ed.) Gender and labour market: Honduras and Nicaragua. Gender, Poverty and Employment Project in Latin America. San José de Costa Rica, ILO, 2003

Review

The studies contained in this document aspire to contribute to gender crosscutting in the elimination of poverty and employment policies in Honduras and Nicaragua.

The introduction by Laís Abramo offers an analytical reflection on the urgency to incorporate women needs in labour world into the design and implementation of employment policies and poverty alleviation.

Chapters I and II, written by Janina Fernández, are about the situation of men and women in Honduras y Nicaragua labour markets. It is based on five guiding premises: a) to increase employment creation rates, economies require sustained and vigorous growth; b) the direction of such growth is as important as the economic growth itself, as far as all economic and social policy instruments seek an adequate balance oriented to the promotion of private investment and, simultaneously, to the growth of real work incomes; c) these achievements will not be possible without a stable political and social climate, which may allow the strengthening of public and private institutionality and the development and operation of clear rules of the game for all actors who converge in the labour market; d) countries' development will not be possible without a tangible and verifiable step forward regarding exclusions arising out of gender, age, ethno and race; e) there is no future with growth and economic and social development, if the necessary measures to protect the environment are not adopted with a short-, medium- and long-term perspective.

Chapter III includes a study by María Elena Valenzuela, presenting an analytical framework to place within context the main challenges which should be met to reduce poverty, by means of employment creation with equity between men and women in Latin America.

Finally, chapter IV includes the results of the research conducted by Janina Fernández concerning the views held by the main actors participating in labour relations in the six Central American countries, as regards the main problems faced by women workers to have their labour rights respected, in conformity with ILO's Working Codes and Fundamental Conventions.

INTRODUCTION
Notes on the incorporation of gender dimension into employment and poverty alleviation policies - Laís Abramo

CHAPTER I: Gender, poverty and labour market for women in Honduras - Janina Fernández Pacheco

CHAPTER II: Proposal study on the situation of women and men in Nicaragua's labour market - Janina Fernández Pacheco

CHAPTER III: Gender inequality and poverty in Latin America - María Elena Valenzuela

CHAPTER IV: Labour rights and gender equity in Central America - Janina Fernández Pacheco

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