International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
323 p., Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution. The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20 years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2 percent of complete households (households in which both husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single- head households. This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean provide a rich environment for studying social inequality, because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic development.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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308 p, Contents: Reputation & respectability reconsidered : a new perspective on Afro-Caribbean peasant women / Jean Besson -- Marriage & concubinage among the Sephardic merchant élite of Curaçao / Eva Abraham-Van der Mark -- Changing roles in the life cycles of women in traditional West Indian houseyards / Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher -- Women's place is every place : merging domains and women's roles in Barbuda & Dominica / Riva Berleant-Schiller and William M. Maurer -- Women in Guadeloupe : the paradoxes of reality / Huguette Dagenais -- The development & role of women's political organizations in Guyana / Linda Peake -- Neighbourhood networks & national politics among working-class Afro-Surinamese women / Rosemary Brana-Shute -- The migration experience : Nevisian women at home & abroad / Karen Fog Olwig -- Migration, development & the gender division of labour : Puerto Rico & Margarita Island, Venezuela / Janice Monk with the late Charles S. Alexander -- Small farm food production & gender in Barbados / Christine Barrow -- A profile of Grenadian women small farmers / John S. Brierley -- Women in agriculture in Trinidad : an overview / Indra S. Harry -- Women & Cuban smallholder agriculture in transition / Jean Stubbs -- Development & gender divisions of labour in the rural Eastern Caribbean / Janet H. Momsen -- Transformation in the needle trades : women in garment & textile production in early twentieth-century Trinidad / Rhoda Reddock -- Gender & ethnicity at work in a Trinidadian factory / Kevin A. Yelvington -- Women's contribution to tourism in Negril, Jamaica / Lesley McKay -- Gender & new technology in the Caribbean : new work for women? / Ruth Pearson
