Macro-economics : making gender matter : concepts, policies and institutional change in developing countries / edited by Martha Gutierrez.

Translations by Anabel Torres.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Macro-economics and gender. Broadening the foundations of macro-economic models through a gender approach : new developments / Barbara Evers ; Engendering macro-economics / Nilufer Çagatay ; Social and gender issues in macro-economic policy advice / Ingrid Palmer ; Macro-economics and gender : options for their integration into a state agenda / Joerg Freiberg-Strauss ; Economic policies, public spending and gender-differentiated effects / Rebeca Grynspan ; Unpaid household labour : a conceptual approach / Fabiola Campillo ; Measurement and valuation of unpaid household production : a methodological contribution / Tatjana Sikoska ; Do we have gender statistics? / Thelma Gálvez -- part II. Gender and the state. Gender and the state : between disenchantment and hope / Maria Cristina Rojas, Elvia Caro ; State modernization, institutional change and gender / Annette Backhaus -- part III. Institutionalizing gender in national and international organizations. Gender equality in public planning institutions / Barbara Hess, Ana Rico de Alonso ; Gender equality in public policies : the UN Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean / José Antonio Ocampo ; The institutionalization of the gender approach within ECLAC / Maria Nieves Rico -- part IV. Case studies from Latin America. Gender and the labour market in Colombia / Cecilia López Montaño ; Poverty information, poverty reduction strategies and gender : a Colombian case study / Rosemary McGee ; Understanding economies as gendered structures : examples from Central America / Jasmine Gideon.

Economic analysis grounded in a gender approach is beginning to enter mainstream economics. The discipline is increasingly recognizing that economic behavior may be influenced by gender, as well as examining critically the gender discrimination inherent in some macroeconomic concepts. This volume, with its wide-ranging intellectual explorations and specific case studies, seeks to make a contribution to this process. Using often original empirical material taken from the actual experiences of Latin American countries, the contributors explore a wide range of key issues.