The World Bank Report 2012 starts with this statement: “Gender equality matters in itself and
it matters for development because, in today’s globalized worlds, countries that use the skills
and talents of their women would have an advantage over those which do not use it.” With the
frame that suggest that gender equality matters, this paper describes some policy alternatives
oriented to overcome gender disadvantages in the formal labor market incorporation of the
urban middle class women in Colombia. On balance, the final recommendation suggest that it
is desirable to adopt policy alternatives as Community Centers, which are programs oriented
to a social redistribution of the domestic work as a way to encourage women participation
in the formal labor market with the social support of the members of their own community