The importance of gender equality in the countries of Latin America after BREXIT
The importance of gender equality in the countries of Latin America after BREXIT

Summary/Abstract: The paper points to the importance of gender equality in the Latin American countries after Brexit from the standpoint of the profound and tight interconnection of this aspect of equality with normative heterosexuality. Also, the paper offers an explanation for the long-ago introduced hegemonic masculinity which not only led to the formation of society and a state but also contributed to the emergence of capitalism in the period of conquest and colonisation of the future Latin American countries. Capitalism contributed to the creation of capital-based complex and diverse relationships which enabled the processes of national and subregional integration to unfold due to the (unwritten) law of hegemonic masculinity. The work of some international organisations, particularly those dealing with economic issues, tacitly relies on the law of hegemonic masculinity. Unlike legal and political sciences in which the gender equality has found its place, the economy still indicates that relationships among individuals within society and a state continue to depend on hegemonic masculinity. It means that economic understanding of gender equality is linked with gender inequality that features old binary relations of public-private, superiority-subordination and productive-reproductive between men and women. Such relations are also characteristic of the Latin American countries.

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