Pandemic, setbacks and an open field for consensus building Most of the empirical material we have on this matter covers up to 2019. About what happened in 2020 in terms of the social perception of inequalities, we can hardly ask questions, although the indicators of trends and ruptures are significant. The arrival of the pandemic in Latin America mobile phone number list and the Caribbean and its rapid establishment as the regional epicenter of the phenomenon on a global scale did nothing but function as a trigger for many of the structural trends that we mobile phone number list mentioned previously and that have been accumulating for decades.
At one point, the social dynamics that covid-19 triggered in our continent (the measures of social isolation, the slowdown of the economy and the contraction mobile phone number list of the labor market, among others) had as one of its strongest manifestations the implementation of evidence of the weak character of the gains achieved during a decade of progressive governments.
Like a kind of time machine of social development, many reports indicate that the pandemic produced a deterioration in employment conditions mobile phone number list that goes back to the juncture of the global crisis of 2008-2009, while it produced a 15-year setback in the areas of monetary poverty and inclusion and socio-educational quality, and 30 years in terms of extreme or structural poverty6. It would be unthinkable for a process of such dimensions not to have a strong impact on the perception of distributional inequity of Latin American women and men.