ABSTRACT
The main goal of this chapter was to try to capture the relationship between gender equality in education, health and participation in the labour market in Latin America to changes in the rate of growth. It also explores the linkages between education levels and women's participation rates, improving knowledge about education gender gaps through the reconstruction of the performance of different generations over time. The chapter discusses the evidence about the evolution of education by gender for a group of representative Latin American countries. It devotes to women's participation in the labour market. The Gender Development Index (GDI), as an indicator of development measuring the Human Development Index corrected for gender inequality, reflects the notion that gender inequalities reduce the general level of well-being in a country, and depending on their intensity, they 'penalize' human development. The chapter presents preliminary results about evolution of the GDI in Chile and Uruguay from 1940 to 2000.
