In Latin America, formal advances in gender equality coexist with persistent violence that continues to limit the autonomy, safety, and everyday lives of millions of women.
Although clear progress has been recorded across different spheres, structural gaps and divergent perceptions persist, revealing tensions that remain unresolved.
Gender parity has advanced from quotas to a democratic principle, but it remains fragile, uneven, and still insufficient to guarantee real equality in representation.
The care agenda is gaining ground in the regional discourse, but it clashes with a model that continues to rely on the invisible and precarious labor of women.
In Latin America, women sustain life in degraded territories, where caring for the environment is also a form of resistance to the climate crisis and to inequality.
The silence of Kast on gender issues does not imply neutrality, but rather a concrete risk of the gradual dismantling of the rights won by women and dissident groups in Chile.
