Dominican Republic | Gender in Infrastructure

Legal Framework and Institutional Mechanisms

Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Ratification in 1982. Ratification of Optional Protocol in 2001. Main reference document for equality between men and women. Through its ratification or accession to it the States are legally bound to adopt all necessary measures, including special temporary measures and laws, in order for women to fully enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The signatory countries take responsibility for the implementation of the Platform for Action, in which 12 critical areas of concern for the advancement of women are defined.
Political Constitution (2010). Women and men are equal before the law. Any act whose goal or result is to undermine or override the acknowledgement, enjoyment or exercise - under equal conditions - of women and men's basic rights is forbidden. The necessary measures to guarantee eradication of inequality and gender-based discrimination shall be promoted. The State guarantees equality and equity between men and women regarding the enjoyment of their labour rights.
Ministry of Women (1999). Defines and leads the implementation of public policies, plans and programs that contribute to gender equality and equity, and to the full exercise of women's citizenship.
Offices for Gender Equity and Development Bureau (OEGD, 2001). Focal points in the various ministries with the objective of mainstreaming gender perspective into sector policies and facilitate the steering and coordinating role of the Ministry of Women.

Equal opportunities

National Gender Equality and Equity Plan 2007-2017 (PLANEG II). The plan defines 7 priority national issues, through which the main problems faced by women within the Dominican society are to be addressed. For each of these national issues an analysis of the current context is made, in relation to the problems it poses for the construction of equality and equity between genders; from there a set of objectives is derived, aiming at addressing and solving said problems. Likewise, priority intervention areas and lines of action are identified, which are to be a guide for concrete actions to be developed by private and public institutions as joint executors of the PLANEG II.
Act 66-97. Education Organic Act which establishes the "Principle of Educational Equality between Genders".

Personal and labor conciliation

Enactment Resolution No. 211-14 of the ILO No. 183 (2014). Extension ofmaternity leave to 14 weeks.
Labor Code and reforms (1992). 2 paid days ofpaternity leave.
Social responsibility for care
Act 87 (2001). It establishes that the Dominican Social Security System (SDSS)[1] shall develop childcare services in order to care for the workers' children, from the time they are 45 days old and until they reach 5 years of age.
[1] Spanish acronym for "Sistema Dominicano de Seguridad Social".

Violence due to gender

Criminal Code (Act 550/2014). Classifies femicide.

Legal Framework and Institutional Mechanisms

Equal opportunities

Personal and labor conciliation

Violence due to gender

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