Gender Politics in Latin American Censuses: The Case of Brazil and Ecuador

Abstract

Using archival analysis within the questionnaires and interviewing key demographers, activists and statisticians in both countries, the authors argue that the presence or absence of gender questions in the Brazilian and Ecuadorian censuses is historically and politically contingent. In contrast to the dominant narrative that suggests that changes in the vision of public statistics is correlated with the modernization of the state, it appears that the statistical visibility of gender issues in each society does not follow a linear path.

Citation

Thome, D. and Villacís, B. (2019), "Gender Politics in Latin American Censuses: The Case of Brazil and Ecuador", Segal, M.T., Kelly, K. and Demos, V. (Ed.) Gender and Practice: Knowledge, Policy, Organizations (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 28), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620190000028007

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