Central America Won't Get Better Until Women's Issues Become a Priority
Central America Won't Get Better Until Women's Issues Become a Priority
The failure to recognize women's needs is a persistent brake on development.
Latin America’s failure to pay attention to women is holding the region back. Despite great success in reducing poverty and income inequality in the first decade of the 21st century, the region’s yawning gender gap continues to be a brake on future development. No clearer example of this exists than in Central America, where an inability to ensure women’s equal access to education, health care and employment has stymied social and economic progress.
Statistics show that most Central American countries had achieved the United Nations’ Millennium Development...
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