This work makes clear the biases arising from using statistical measures of the formal sector without examining the linkages between the productive and reproductive spheres, and the systematic gender biases present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household.

Economic analysis grounded in a gender approach is beginning to enter mainstream economics. The discipline is recognizing that economic behaviour may be influenced by gender, and that gender discrimination is inherent in some macro-economic concepts. This work contributes to this analysis. It makes clear the biases arising from using statistical measures of the formal sector without examining the linkages between the productive and reproductive spheres, and the systematic gender biases present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household. Its aim is a new framework that helps economic theorizing and policy making approximate more closely to real life. The contributors cover three broad areas - macro-economics and gender, gender and the state, and the institutionalization of gender in national and international organizations. Using original empirical material from Latin America, they explore a wide range of issues including the gender-differentiated effects of economic policy and public spending decisions; unpaid household labour; gender statistics; gender equality in planning and public policy; and the notion of economies as gendered structures.

PART 1: MACROECONOMICS AND GENDER 1. Broadening the Foundations of Macro-economic Models through a Gender Approach: New Developments
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Barbara Evers 2. Engendering Macroeconomics
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Nilufer Cagatay 3. Social and Gender Issues in Macro-economic Policy Advice
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Ingrid Palmer 4. Macroeconomics and Gender: Options for their Integration into a State Agenda
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Joerg Freiburg-Strauss 5. Economic Policies, Public Spending and Gender-dDifferentiated Effects
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Rebeca Grynspan 6. Unpaid Household Labour: A Conceptual Approach
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Fabiola Campilla 7. Measurement and Valuation of Unpaid Household Production: A Methodological Contribution
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Tatjana Sikoska 8. Do we Have Gender Statistics?
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Thelma Galvez PART 2: GENDER AND THE STATE 9. Engendering the State: Between Disenchantment and Hope
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Maria Cristina Rojas and Elvia Caro 10. State Modernisation, Institutional Change and Gender
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Annette Backhaus PART 3: INSTITUTIONALISING GENDER IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS 11. Gender Equality in Public Planning Institutions
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Barbara Hess and Ana Rico de Alonso 12. Gender Equality in Public Policies: The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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Jose Antonio Ocampo 13. The Institutionalisation of the Gender Approach at ECLAC
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Maria Nieves Rico PART 4: CASE STUDIES FROM LATIN AMERICA 14. Gender and the Labour Market in Colombia
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Cecilia Lopez Montano 15. Poverty Information, Poverty Reduction Strategies and Gender: A Colombian Case Study
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Rosemary McGee 16. Understanding Economies as Gendered Structures: Examples from Central America
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Jasmine Gideon