The aim of this document is to reveal the current situation regarding production of statistics with a gender perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean, the factors that have been key to making progress in this area and the remaining challenges. Experiences that can be considered good practices for the region will also be presented, without producing a regional ranking or assessment. The intent of preparing this document, which does not provide an exhaustive list of issues that could be addressed from a gender perspective, is to systematize or take stock of all existing practices.

The document is based on technical and political agreements and concepts at the regional and global levels, and is intended to suggest elements that could be used as guidelines for the different stages of the statistical production process, without wishing to be prescriptive or become a manual. It is hoped that the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC will take this input and use it to fuel technical discussions that could facilitate the creation of methodological guides to make progress in producing gender statistics and indicators with greater comparability, relevance and timeliness. To that end, this document is one more step in an ongoing process that requires political will and conviction as to the importance of advancing with more and better data so as to make informed decisions.

The report is organized into seven chapters. In chapter I, four structural challenges of gender inequality are addressed and the current situation of women in the region is addressed in relation to their individual circumstances and interrelationships. In chapter II, there is a review of the synergetic work of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Statistical Conference of the Americas, and the regional progress in strengthening the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in the statistical production of countries. In chapter III, progress made in mainstreaming the gender perspective at the national level in national statistical systems is presented, and in chapter IV the partnerships between the producers and users of information are examined to strengthen the production of gender statistics. In chapter V, progress in incorporating the gender perspective into the regular production of official statistics is analysed, alongside efforts to mainstream gender in the production of all economic, social and environmental statistics. In chapter VI, the focus is on the progress made by Latin American and Caribbean countries in producing the information needed to implement and monitor public policies on care that make it possible to move towards a care society.

The document concludes with a chapter on the challenges in achieving gender information systems by 2030 that would allow data to be turned into information, information into knowledge and knowledge into political decision-making.