The monitoring of progress in attaining gender equality is not new. In fact, recent available evidence indicates that despite the progress being made towards achieving gender equality, there are many areas in which gender inequality persists in the Caribbean. These include gender pay gap, discriminatory practices in the labour market, sexual division of labour, imbalanced distribution of time and sharing of responsibilities for domestic and unpaid care work, including in decision-making, and unequal access to and control over productive and natural resources, credit, incomes, education, and social protection, among others.