BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NEWS >> Women at work. Piras, Claudia. IDB, 2005

Women at Work focuses on a set of topics deemed to be particularly relevant in the current debate in the region about women's successes and challenges in the labor market. Most chapters include policy recommendations related to these topics. The first section of the book presents an overview of how much and in what conditions Latin American and Caribbean women are participating in the labor market. The second section focuses on two of the challenges that women continue to face as they enter the labor market: gender wage gaps and occupational segregation. The final chapters provide an analysis of gender inequities in the informal economy and in the pension and social protection systems in Latin America. Rapid growth in female labor participation over the last two decades in the region makes the revision of these social institutions imperative.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
An Overview of the Challenges and Policy Issues Facing Women in the Labor Force
Claudia Piras

SECTION II: GLOBALIZATION AND WOMEN'S WORK
Chapter 2
Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990s
Suzanne Duryea, Alejandra Cox Edwards and Manuelita Ureta
Chapter 3
Changing Employment Patterns and the Informalization of Jobs: General Trends and Gender Dimensions
Lourdes Benería
Chapter 4
Trade Openness and the Female Worker: The Case of Chile
Dante Contreras, Esteban Puentes and Tomás Rau

SECTION III: LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND CURES
Chapter 5
Evolution of Salary Differences between Men and Women in Six Latin American Countries
Jaime Tenjo Galarza, Rocio Ribero Medina and Luisa Fernanda Bernat Díaz
Chapter 6
Working within Confines: Occupational Segregation by Gender in Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uruguay
Ruthanne Deutsch, Andrew Morrison, Claudia Piras and Hugo Ñopo

SECTION IV: GENDER INEQUITIES IN THE PENSION AND SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS
Chapter 7
A Framework for Analyzing Social Protection for Workers in the Informal Economy
Frances Lund
Chapter 8
Women, Informal Employment and Social Protection in Latin America
Armando Barrientos
Chapter 9
Pensions Reforms and Incentives for Contribution Among Women
Alejandra Cox Edwards

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