Structural reforms to pension systems were among the most profound and important social policy changes implemented in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s. These changes have begun to be analyzed in more specific terms than the economic and financial-actuarial framework typically applied for this purpose. In the specific area of social protection, gender analysis has been limited and, in many cases, absent from the policy debate occurring in government, academic and international organizational spheres under the implicit assumption that these reforms are neutral in terms of their effects on men and women.