Carin Zissis
Host at Latin America in Focus Podcast
Fellow, @TheWilsonCenter covering 🇲🇽 Mexico, politics, gender parity/gaps. On leave: Editor-in-Chief, @ASCOA Online. Carin=🚗-in. Views own.
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1 month ago |
worldpoliticsreview.com | Carin Zissis
At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce. All told, the value of uncompensated domestic labor in Mexico amounts to more than 26 percent of GDP, outpacing both the manufacturing sector and trade, according to the country’s statistics agency. Yet roughly 20 million Mexican women are not employed because they are busy providing that unpaid labor.
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as-coa.org | Carin Zissis
As Mexico faces tariff threats and stagnant growth, "closing the workforce gap represents an economic opportunity," writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis in WPR. At the heart of unpaid care work in Mexico lies a paradox: The labor sustains the economy, even as it creates barriers to women joining the workforce.
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1 month ago |
wilsoncenter.org | Carin Zissis |Bruna L. Santos |Michael Fitzpatrick
Q&A with Minister Manuel Tovar of Costa RicaQ. In recent years, Costa Rica has become the second-largest exporter of medical devices in Latin America. How did Costa Rica end up a hub for advanced manufacturing, including for computer chips? A. Costa Rica’s economic transformation has been remarkable, turning into a sophisticated global hub for advanced manufacturing and services.
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1 month ago |
wilsoncenter.org | Carin Zissis
Professional Affiliation Editor-in-Chief, AS/COA Online, Americas Society/Council of the Americas Expert Bio Carin Zissis is Editor-in-Chief of AS/COA Online, the website of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Based in Mexico City from 2013 to 2021, she regularly publishes analysis and provides commentary on Mexican politics and elections, women’s equity and leadership, U.S.-Mexico ties, and other Latin American issues. She is the host of AS/COA’s Latin America in Focus podcast.
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newsecuritybeat.org | Carin Zissis
Elvia León, the youngest of seven children, wanted to leave Bomintzhá back in 1987. “I told my mother that I didn’t want to live in that kind of poverty, and she supported me.” Her father was less pleased with her plans to abandon their small community in Mexico’s Hidalgo state to study in the city of Querétaro. “The culture here is that women are meant to be at home, doing domestic chores.”This article, by Wilson Center Scholar, Carin Zissis, originally appeared on Americas Quarterly.
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