Work and Family

This report prepared by the ILO and UNDP seeks to address one of the greatest challenges of our time: the reconciliation between work and family. Focused on Latin America and the Caribbean; the region with the world's highest levels of inequality, the report argues that it is necessary to advance toward reconciliation of these two spheres through social co-responsibility: redistributing care responsibilities between men and women, as well as among the family, the State, the market and society as a whole. This is a fundamental aspect for promoting equality in the world of work and reducing poverty. It is also an essential condition for making progress towards gender equality, particularly for the achievements of the goals of the Decent Work Hemispheric Agenda launched by the ILO in 2006.