The lead author of this Review was Jane Korinek, Senior Economist and Senior Policy Analyst in the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate. Other contributing authors were Christine Arriola (women consumers), Alex Jaax (trade costs), Silvia Sorescu (trade facilitation) and Elisabeth van Lieshout (women workers and business leaders) of the OECD; and consultants Amrita Bahri (gender-related provisions) and Sofia Loria (services trade). Isabel Araújo Cabronero, Alejandra Gonzalez, Federico Stronati and Josefina Waugh provided statistical and research assistance, and Laëtitia Christophe and Michèle Patterson provided editorial assistance.
The research benefitted from substantive comments and discussions in the OECD Working Party of the Trade Committee, made up of all 38 OECD Member countries as well as non-Member Observers.
The quantitative and policy research was complemented by a set of round tables and interviews with women business leaders and exporters in Mexico (July 2023), Colombia (November 2023), Costa Rica (March 2024) and Peru (May 2024). Huge thanks to Luz María de la Mora, Sofia Pérez Gasque, Angélica Brito, Mónica Aspe, Mónica Loaiza and Maria del Carmen Bernal in Mexico; María José Rojas Segura and Ana Laura Vega Rodriguez in Costa Rica; Paola Buendía García of ANDI, Colombia; and Sandra Herrera Cardenas and Emily Ore Ichpas of MINCETUR, Peru for their insights, their willingness to share their contacts and/or organization of discussions with women business leaders. Too numerous to name, the participants in the round tables made this publication better and more closely grounded in lived experience.
The author is grateful to John Drummond, Head of Division, and Marion Jansen, Director of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate for their guidance throughout the preparation of this Review.