Comparative Study of Gender and Work in the Caribbean

9817842布朗这个项目由三位年轻的人类学家组成的团队进行了初步研究，研究波多黎各、马提尼克岛和巴巴多斯的社会和家庭限制如何塑造女性企业家精神。这三个加勒比海岛国分别被西班牙、法国和英国殖民。虽然这些岛屿在女性自营职业的发生率和当地性别角色模式方面表现出很大的差异，但它们都有甘蔗种植园经济和奴隶劳动的历史。这项研究旨在确定与每个岛屿社会中较高的女企业家频率和成功率有关的具体体制和意识形态因素。研究人员将进行一次家庭社会经济普查，并对每个岛屿中心城市的男性和女性户主进行深入访谈，以收集比较数据，以检验各种基于性别的意识形态和结构性因素与女性经济结果的关系的假设。这项研究很重要，因为它将增进我们对发展中世界妇女经济成功的社会和体制制约因素的理解。这一成本低廉的试点项目应该允许研究人员改进他们的程序，并计划就这一主题进行一项重大的比较研究。

9817842BrowneThis project involves preliminary research by a team of three young anthropologists studying how female entrepreneurship is patterned according to social and household constraints in Puerto Rico, Martinique and Barbados. These three Caribbean island societies were colonized by Spain, France and Britain, respectively. While exhibiting strong differences in the incidence of female self-employment and local gender role patterns, the islands share a history of sugar plantation economies and slave labor. The research is designed to identify the specific institutional and ideological factors associated with higher frequencies and success rates of female entrepreneurs in each island society. The researchers will conduct a household socioeconomic census and structured in-depth interviews with male and female household heads in each island's central city to gather comparative data to test hypotheses about the relation of various gender-based ideological and structural factors to women's economic outcomes. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of the social and institutional constraints on women's economic success in the developing world. This inexpensive pilot project should allow the researchers to refine their procedures and plan a major comparative study on this subject.