This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...

"The author is a labor lawyer for various unions. He argues for a 'mixed' economy that will allow the government and the workers to balance off the power of capital, which is becoming too great under neoliberalism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57