Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America

Autores
Arza, Camila
Año de publicación
2012
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As most other components in social protection systems, pension schemes can have a substantial impact on gender equality. The way in which pension systems distribute rights, resources and risks can affect men and women differently and serve to mitigate, reproduce or amplify the gender inequalities emerging from the labour market, the distribution of work in the household, etc. Pension systems can also favour some family arrangements over others and introduce incentives that consolidate specific gender roles. Starting with Chile in the 1980s, a number of Latin American countries implemented structural pension reforms that fully or partially replaced these systems with fully funded systems of individual accounts, in which benefits depend on individual pension savings. By strengthening the connection between lifetime contributions and benefits, the new pension schemes raised a whole new set of gender equality issues. More recently, increasing concern about the capacity of women to build sufficient pension savings over their lifetimes to obtain adequate protection in old-age has motivated a number of studies and policy innovations. Some Latin American countries have started to introduce gender-friendly elements in their pension systems to try to improve women's access to social security. This paper evaluates the sources of gender inequality in old-age protection (both institutional and labour market-related) and the way in which recent pension reforms in Latin America have tried to compensate and overcome some of the gender biases in previous systems.
Fil: Arza, Camila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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GENDER
PENSION REFORM
SOCIAL SECURITY
EQUALITY
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spelling Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin AmericaArza, CamilaGENDERPENSION REFORMSOCIAL SECURITYEQUALITYhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.4https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5As most other components in social protection systems, pension schemes can have a substantial impact on gender equality. The way in which pension systems distribute rights, resources and risks can affect men and women differently and serve to mitigate, reproduce or amplify the gender inequalities emerging from the labour market, the distribution of work in the household, etc. Pension systems can also favour some family arrangements over others and introduce incentives that consolidate specific gender roles. Starting with Chile in the 1980s, a number of Latin American countries implemented structural pension reforms that fully or partially replaced these systems with fully funded systems of individual accounts, in which benefits depend on individual pension savings. By strengthening the connection between lifetime contributions and benefits, the new pension schemes raised a whole new set of gender equality issues. More recently, increasing concern about the capacity of women to build sufficient pension savings over their lifetimes to obtain adequate protection in old-age has motivated a number of studies and policy innovations. Some Latin American countries have started to introduce gender-friendly elements in their pension systems to try to improve women's access to social security. This paper evaluates the sources of gender inequality in old-age protection (both institutional and labour market-related) and the way in which recent pension reforms in Latin America have tried to compensate and overcome some of the gender biases in previous systems.Fil: Arza, Camila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaUnited Nations Research Institute for Social Development2012-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/195917Arza, Camila; Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development; Gender and Development Programme Paper; 15; 3-2012; 1-341994-8026CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/141709/Arza%20paper.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:06:19Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/195917instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:06:20.197CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
title Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
spellingShingle Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
Arza, Camila
GENDER
PENSION REFORM
SOCIAL SECURITY
EQUALITY
title_short Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
title_full Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
title_fullStr Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
title_sort Pension reforms and gender equality in Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Arza, Camila
author Arza, Camila
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv GENDER
PENSION REFORM
SOCIAL SECURITY
EQUALITY
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PENSION REFORM
SOCIAL SECURITY
EQUALITY
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv As most other components in social protection systems, pension schemes can have a substantial impact on gender equality. The way in which pension systems distribute rights, resources and risks can affect men and women differently and serve to mitigate, reproduce or amplify the gender inequalities emerging from the labour market, the distribution of work in the household, etc. Pension systems can also favour some family arrangements over others and introduce incentives that consolidate specific gender roles. Starting with Chile in the 1980s, a number of Latin American countries implemented structural pension reforms that fully or partially replaced these systems with fully funded systems of individual accounts, in which benefits depend on individual pension savings. By strengthening the connection between lifetime contributions and benefits, the new pension schemes raised a whole new set of gender equality issues. More recently, increasing concern about the capacity of women to build sufficient pension savings over their lifetimes to obtain adequate protection in old-age has motivated a number of studies and policy innovations. Some Latin American countries have started to introduce gender-friendly elements in their pension systems to try to improve women's access to social security. This paper evaluates the sources of gender inequality in old-age protection (both institutional and labour market-related) and the way in which recent pension reforms in Latin America have tried to compensate and overcome some of the gender biases in previous systems.
Fil: Arza, Camila. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description As most other components in social protection systems, pension schemes can have a substantial impact on gender equality. The way in which pension systems distribute rights, resources and risks can affect men and women differently and serve to mitigate, reproduce or amplify the gender inequalities emerging from the labour market, the distribution of work in the household, etc. Pension systems can also favour some family arrangements over others and introduce incentives that consolidate specific gender roles. Starting with Chile in the 1980s, a number of Latin American countries implemented structural pension reforms that fully or partially replaced these systems with fully funded systems of individual accounts, in which benefits depend on individual pension savings. By strengthening the connection between lifetime contributions and benefits, the new pension schemes raised a whole new set of gender equality issues. More recently, increasing concern about the capacity of women to build sufficient pension savings over their lifetimes to obtain adequate protection in old-age has motivated a number of studies and policy innovations. Some Latin American countries have started to introduce gender-friendly elements in their pension systems to try to improve women's access to social security. This paper evaluates the sources of gender inequality in old-age protection (both institutional and labour market-related) and the way in which recent pension reforms in Latin America have tried to compensate and overcome some of the gender biases in previous systems.
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