Geographical Area
ChileLatin America and the Caribbean
Scope
National
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In 2014, Chile conducted a research study to evaluate how many public contracts were businesses owned by men, versus contracts awarded to businesses owned by women. This study showed that only 36% of public contracts were awarded to women, and that these represented 26% of total value.
Based on this study they established a series of measures to promote gender equality through public procurement. This included provisions for including award criteria to assess suppliers in terms of gender inclusion.
As an example, they propose giving this factor a weighing of 15% in the evaluation, and suggest different ways of evaluation. These include giving full points to companies which are led by women, or companies which demonstrate gender parity in its hiring, showing that the % of women hired with respect to the total number of workers in the same company is higher than 50%.