July 18, 2018
Expert group workshop on women's empowerment in the LAC region
The inclusion of gender equality and the empowerment of gender equality and all women and girls as an explicit goal (Goal 5) within the Sustainable Development Goals, reflects the fact that, over the past 20 years, progress has been achieved but more slowly than desirable and at an uneven pace, with large differences between and within countries, especially in different wealth groups.1
To overcome the lack of comparable individual-level measures, the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment Ind