Rights, Gender and Progress Indicators: The Debts of Democracy

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the importance of including the gender-based approach both in the field of State financial obligations and in the field of private debts of women and sexual diversities, and particularly in the development of progress indicators and their implementation. For that purpose, the authors present the main (quantitative and qualitative) indicators of progress that, in accordance with the Inter-American system, are used in current monitoring mechanisms in the region, and consider their potential to measure, with a gender-based approach, the degree of compliance with State obligations connected to debt and their incidence on the level of fulfillment of human rights. Finally, from a critical look at the autonomy approach, the authors highlight the need to promote the recognition of a life free of indebtedness that enables women and sexual diversities to enjoy economic autonomy in all its dimensions.