Gender Equality in Costa Rica
Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work
The OECD review of Gender Equality in Costa Rica: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid
and Unpaid Work is the fourth in a collection of reports focusing on Latin American
and the Caribbean countries, and part of the series Gender Equality at Work. The report
compares gender gaps in labour and educational outcomes in Costa Rica with other countries.
Particular attention is put on the uneven distribution of unpaid work, and the extra
burden placed on women. It investigates how policies and programmes in Costa Rica
can make this distribution more equitable. The first part of the report reviews the
evidence on gender gaps and their causes, including the role played by social norms.
The second part develops a comprehensive framework to address these challenges, presenting
a broad range of options to reduce the unpaid work burden falling on women, and to
increase women’s labour income. Earlier reviews in the same collection have looked
at gender equality policies in Chile (2021), Peru (2022) and Colombia (2023).
Available from July 11, 2024Also available in: Spanish
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