The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of economic policy and structural change on gender inequality in employment and economic opportunities for a set of 18 Latin American countries over the time period 1990-2010. We use three different methodologies to explore this question:
1) statistical description of changes in a range of gender inequality in economic opportunity variables in the 1990s versus the 2000s.
2) estimates of the growth elasticity of employment for women and for men.
3) econometric analysis of the determinants of gendered employment and unemployment levels, as well as the determinants of gender inequality in these variables.

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