A new report prepared by the International Labour Organization and the United Nations Development Program addresses work and family balance issues impacting families in Latin America and the Caribbean. The report analyses the current situation in these regions, which have some of the world's highest levels of inequality. It also makes concrete policy proposals designed to help government, workers organizations and employers move toward greater reconciliation of work and family roles for women in Latin America and the Caribbean nations.

The authors argue that reforms designed to improve greater reconciliation of work and family must be designed within a framework of social co-responsibility, which means redistributing care responsibilities between men and women, as well as among the family, the State, the market and society as a whole. The report also states that helping Latin American families achieve greater reconciliation of work and family roles will not only promote human rights and equality in the workplace, it will help to reduce poverty and have positive impacts on labour, economic and productivity issues.

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