This review of gender issues aims touncover the main gender gaps in the country, and to identifypotential policy recommendations that could help closingthem in the coming years.The note is an input to thedevelopment of a Gender Action Plan for the Andean Countriesunder the Gender Analysis Work Program. The note lays out adescriptive overview of gender gaps in endowments, economicopportunities and agency the explanation of the observedsituation is outside the scope of this note.This noteapplies the analytical framework devised by the WDR 2012 onGender Equality and Development. Chapter one covers thelegal and institutional framework and the issue of theagency of women – e.g. political representation and violenceagainst women, time use, and attitudes towards women;Chapter two provides an overview the situation with regardsto the main endowments of health and education; and Chapterthree deals with the existing gender gaps in economicopportunity – labor force participation and unemployment,the quality of employment, earnings, entrepreneurship andaccess to finance.The draft review is the result of thefirst stage in the assessment process. The note mainlyreflects an initial descriptive exercise, and will berevised after the completion of stakeholder consultations inthe countries; the results of such consultations will notonly help identify additional literature and research onspecific issues, but also help prioritize the key gendergaps to be addressed based on the way discussions on theissue are currently taking place in the country.
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