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Gender Equality in Nicaragua (Final Draft)
When it comes to gender equality in Latin America, Nicaragua ranks high amongst the other countries in the region. When it came to global rankings regarding gender equality, the World Economic Forum ranked Nicaragua at number twelve in 2015, while in 2016 it ranked tenth, and in 2017 the country ranked sixth.

After overthrowing the Somoza regime, the Sandinista National Liberation Front came into power in 1979, this movement helped mobilize women in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas sought to empower women and put an end to the inequality between men and women.

In regards to politics, Nicaragua must meet a gender quota. Through this, women receive fair representation in politics In the year 2016, women held 41.3 percent of the seats in the parliament and women in the ministry held 52.9 percent of the positions. The year 2017 saw 45.7 percent of women in the national parliament.

Nicaragua was amongst the many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which aimed to promote women's rights.

Nicaragua has yet to achieve overall gender equality. Women in Nicaragua are more likely to face poverty than men and rates of violence against women still remains high.

According to the World Bank's Gender Data Portal, participation in the labor force between men and women differs. For the year 2016, women in the low income bracket accounted for 65 percent, men accounted for 80 percent. The middle income bracket accounted for 46 percent of women, and 77 percent of men. The high income bracket accounted for 52 percent of women, and 69 percent of men. A gender pay gap between men and women in Nicaragua exists.

When it comes to farming, there is inequality amongst men and women. 2016 saw 8.5 percent of women employed in agriculture, while 42.9 percent of men were employed. Men tend to own more land than women in Nicaragua. In the rural areas of Nicaragua, 65 percent of women are working on land that they do not own. Due to the fact that more men owned land in Nicaragua, and ownership in Nicaragua is linked to authority, programs in the 1990s sought to provide more women with the opportunity to own land.

The enrollment rates for women in school is much higher than that of men.