50 p., Examines the impact of labor market trends on poor families. Revised and updated version of the authors' study, Pobreza y mercado de trabajo en el Gran Santiago.
Bogotá, Colombiana: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Departamento de Ciencia Política, Instituto Unidad de Investigaciones Jurídico-Sociales Gerardo Molina
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Demonstrate how the priority of education in Cuban social policy, from its outset after the 1959 revolution, has privileged women. Statistics chart the rapid increase in educational level and attainment over the decades and the high degree of feminization of higher education and thus the skilled labor force; and today Cuba ranks among the countries with the highest indicators in the United Nations' Millennium Goals with respect to education and gender equity.
