Comparative Study of Gender and Work in the Caribbean

9817842 browne3名年轻人类学家组成的小组对波多黎各、马提尼克岛和巴巴多斯的社会和家庭制约因素对女性创业模式的影响进行了初步研究。这三个加勒比岛屿社会分别是西班牙、法国和英国的殖民地。虽然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，但这些岛屿都有甘蔗种植园经济和奴隶劳动的历史。这项研究的目的是查明与每个岛屿社会中女性企业家的较高频率和成功率有关的具体体制和意识形态因素。研究人员将进行家庭社会经济普查，并对每个岛屿中心城市的男女户主进行结构化的深度访谈，以收集比较数据，以检验关于各种基于性别的意识形态和结构因素与妇女经济成果之间关系的假设。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对发展中国家妇女经济成功的社会和制度限制的理解。这一廉价的试点项目将使研究人员能够改进他们的程序，并就这一问题计划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.