Program Areas	Program Areas   Recent Projects:   Women, Work and Employment      Women, Citizenship and Politics   Gender and Public Policies

Research and outreach activities at CEM focus on three major areas: labor, political participation, and public policy.

Our Women, Work and Employment Program studies gender relations in the world of work, both in and outside the home and in the dynamics of the labor market. It follows trends in the employment of women, the effect of economic and technological changes on their working conditions, and the varying impact of these shifts on men, women and the attitudes of the business community toward female workers and managers.

CEM´s Women, Citizenship and Politics Program analyzes power relations between the sexes in political institutions and systems. It elucidates the justifications for and the mechanisms of discrimination against women in political life and addresses the need to understand the different forms of exercising citizenship, as well as to provide civic education enabling women to participate in the nation's democratic development.

The Gender and Public Policies Program illuminates relations between men and women in the arena of government social policy and studies the formation and administration of public policy from a gender perspective. It brings to light aspects of the interaction of women with government authorities and public employees and shows how the access of women to positions of power in public administration affects the design of gender-based policies.

Program Areas

Recent Projects:

Women, Work and Employment      Women, Citizenship and Politics   Gender and Public Policies

Current and Recent: Research and Consulting Projects
Women, Work and Employment

- Project: New labor relations and social protection from a gender perspective. (2002-2003).

- The pyramidal organization of shoe production, the exposure to toxic agents and their effect on health. (January-April 2003).

- SENCE Consultancy: "Characterization of work done at home and women". (2003).

- Effect of flexibility on labor biographies of men and women: consequences for social protection. (2003-2004).

- Effect of flexibility on labor biographies of men and women: consequences for social protection. (2002-2003).

- Flexibilization of labor hours in Chile: Towards a greater equality in opportunities or less gender inequities? (2000-2001).

- Sexual harassment incidence in workplaces and legislation feasibility: analysis of opinions and perceptions on this subject. (2000-2001).

- The influence of women on masculine work histories and identities (1999-2000)

- Gender, labour flexibility and women´s work insertion: themes for economic grpwth and equity (1997-1999)

- Schedule flexibility in women´s work in Chile (1998-1999)

- Gender and Work in the Context of the Flexibilization of Production and Labor (1998-1999)

- Compliance in Public Administration with Maternity and Family Leave Regulations (1997)

- The Quality of Employment in Chile: A Gender Analysis (1997)

- Women at Work in Chile: The Business Community's View (1997-1998)

- Flexible Accumulation and Segregation by Gender in the Labor Market: A Study of the Garment Industry (1996­1997)

- Unpaid Labor: Homemakers´ Working and Health Conditions (1996-1997)

- An Analysis of Generational Differences in Working Careers of Chilean Women (1996)

- Elaboration of an Information Leaflet on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (1996)

- Development of Workshops for Employees, Business Executives, Regulators and Social Experts on Recognizing and Handling Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (1995-1996)

- A Comparative Study of Labor Costs by Sex (1995-1996)

- Woman, Work and Family: The Home as Workplace in Chile (1995-1996)

- The Impact of Free-trade Treaties on Women's Labor (1995-1996)

- Gender Indicators and the Improvement of Statistics on Work and Health (1995)

- Working and Health Conditions: Salaried Women Employees in Manufacturing and Fruit Picking and Packing (1990-1995)

Program Areas

Recent Projects:

Women, Work and Employment      Women, Citizenship and Politics   Gender and Public Policies

Current and Recent: Research and Consulting Projects
Women, Citizenship and Politics

- Generation of institutions that mediate between state and society (2002-2003).

- Women's movement in the nineties: the re-configuration of a collective action system (2000-2002).

- Consultancy: "Perception of political and social leaders of the quota law: content and feasibility" (2000).

- Topics and strategies around which women mobilize in the public field.

- Women in Public Debate: A Communications Strategy for Gender Equity (Phase II 1997-1998)

- Issues and Strategies that Serve as Rallying Points for Women in Public Life (1997)

- Consulting Activities for the Institutional Positioning of Development Organizations (Conducted in Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico and Peru 1993-1996)

- Women in Public Debate: A Communications Strategy for Gender Equity (Phase I 1995-1996)

- The State and Citizen Expression: A Gathering of Women Leaders (Phase II 1996)

- Citizen's Image of the Woman in Politics (1994-1995)

- The State and Citizen Expression: A Gathering of Women Leaders (Phase I 1995)

- Leadership Training for Working Women (1991-1995)

Program Areas

Recent Projects:

Women, Work and Employment      Women, Citizenship and Politics   Gender and Public Policies

Current and Recent: Research and Consulting Projects
Gender and Public Policies

- Cognitive and hegemonic frameworks and policy actions in gender and economics (2002-2003)

- Progress Evaluation on the implementation of Chile's Equal Opportunities Plan for Women (1999)

- State-Society relations in public policy processes: The implementation of the Equal Opportunities Plan for Women (1998-1999)

- Dialogue and Interplay between the State and Society in the Implementation of Chile's Equal Opportunities Plan for Women (1998)

- Chile's Equal Opportunities Plan for Women: A Report on Progress at the Regional Level (1998)

- The Role of Social Networks in Positioning Family Violence and Sexual Harassment on Public and Institutional Agendas (1997)

- Policies to Improve Professional Training in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recommendations for Incorporating a Gender Perspective (1997)

- Chile's Equal Opportunities Plan for Women: 1995-1996 Progress Report

- Charter Document for the 1997-2001 Strategic Equal Opportunities Plan for Women of Paraguay and Biennial Action Plan (1996)

- Charter Document for the 1996-2001 Action Plan for Women's Progress of the Dominican Republic (1996)

- Women in the Labor Market: Moving from Gender Considerations to Policy Formulation (1994-1996)

- Chile's Equal Opportunities Plan for Women: 1994-1995 Progress Report

- Development of a System of Gender-based Indicators for Social Programs and Projects (1994-1995)