El diagnóstico de Panamá es el resultado de la primera aplicación del proyecto Atenea en un país. La información recabada y el análisis realizado pretenden ofrecer un panorama integrado y ordenado del estado de situación de la participación política de las mujeres en Panamá con el objetivo de que contribuya a generar debates y sinergias entre los agentes impulsores de la Mesa, fortaleciendo una democracia más inclusiva e igualitaria en Panamá.

Over a period of eighteen months, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) compiled twenty case studies of party activities to promote women’s political empowerment. Drawing on those and other examples, UNDP and the NDI identified concrete steps which can be taken by political parties to promote women in political life. This publication, Empowering Women for Stronger Political Parties: A Guidebook to Promote Women’s Political Participation, is the fruit of this research, and provides concise and targeted options for political party reform.

Guía jurídica práctica que reúne un compilado sistemático y analítico de 130 sentencias, decisiones y resoluciones de casos paradigmáticos, para que tanto la sociedad civil como la institucionalidad pública -legislativa, ejecutiva y judicial- cuenten con herramientas para la aplicación transversal de los estándares de protección vigentes en el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos, relativos a casos de violencia contra las mujeres por razón de género.

This paper collects an original database of publicly listed companies to determine pre- vailing gender ratios among board members and executives in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC). Women are as under-represented in LAC as in the United States, but much less so in the Caribbean. It is then estimated whether companies with women board members are more likely to appoint women executives. This is the case in LAC, but the results are driven strongly by Caribbean companies. The paper finally estimates whether measures of female leadership at the firm are correlated with company performance, finding this to be the case only for board membership and only when the proportion of women on the board is greater than 30 percent. Again com- position effects are important, with average results driven by Caribbean and Southern Cone companies. Overall, it is concluded that the LAC regions empirical regularities in under-representation of women in firm leadership positions are very similar to those found for high-income countries in Europe and North America.

Este informe evalúa en qué medida la financiación política es realmente un obstáculo para que las

mujeres se postulen a cargos de elección popular.

El estudio se centra en la experiencia de Colombia, un país que, como muchos otros en América Latina, sigue combatiendo un pesado legado de desigualdad social, económica y política, que afecta desproporcionadamente a las mujeres.