Gender Equality Indicators for Public Employment in Chile.

Data governance in the public sector remains a pending issue when measuring Gender Equality. The sexual division of labour is a phenomenon that also affects the State, which is usually required to be the guarantor of progress towards Decent Work and Gender Equality in the private and civil society sectors. However, less is known about what happens internally, especially in local governments.

The paper will show a proposal of Gender Equality indicators for employment in Chilean local governments, with special emphasis on those that allow observing horizontal segregation and vertical occupational segregation.

For this purpose, the database elaborated by the author in the framework of her doctoral thesis will be used, with secondary information sent by different governmental agencies. In addition, interviews with key actors in Chilean municipalism will be used.

The results will be divided into five indicators: access or entry to public employment, input, process, outcome, and impact (Buquet et al, 2010). Along with this, problems that cannot be seen with numerical data will be shown, so qualitative variables will be necessary.

The presentation will conclude with the identification of a basic system of municipal employment indicators with a gender perspective. Theoretically, this research seeks to show evidence of public employment in full transformation, ceasing to be an expression of secure and stable jobs, especially for women.