Female Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Study of Gender and Work in the Caribbean.

布朗/弗里曼(9911743)这项对波多黎各、马提尼克岛和巴巴多斯的比较研究将调查女性创业是如何根据社会和家庭层面的限制而形成的。这三个岛屿在女性自营职业的发生率、性别角色的地方模式以及女性劳动参与率方面存在显著差异。制约女性创业兴趣的关键因素既有制度因素，也有意识形态因素，存在于家庭领域、工作场所和国家。这项研究将记录和解释各岛屿妇女参与的差异，以及导致创业成功和失败的因素。三个岛屿的工作场所和州一级政策的差异也将被考虑在内。将检验一些假设，包括职业隔离类型(按性别)、弱/强父权性别关系以及女性企业家的不同比率之间的关系。还将调查福利导向、国家政策和女性经济风险厌恶之间的关系。方法包括对三个岛屿的样本进行家庭普查，对男性和女性企业家的子样本进行广泛采访，以及生活史分析。这项研究将有助于性别和经济创业的人类学理论，以及寻求加强发展中经济体“非正式”部门的国家一级发展规划。

Browne/Freeman (9911743)This comparative study of Puerto Rico, Martinique, and Barbados will investigate how female entrepreneurship is patterned according to social and household-level constraints. The three islands differ significantly in the incidence of female self-employment, in local patterns of gender roles, and in female workforce participation. The key factors that constrain women's entrepreneurial interests are both institutional and ideological and are located in the domestic realm, the workplace, and the state. The research will document and explain the differences in women's participation across islands, as well as the factors that lead to successful versus unsuccessful entrepreneurship. Variation in workplace and state level policies across the three islands will also be taken into consideration. A number of hypotheses will be tested including relationships between types of occupational segregation (by gender), weak/strong patriarchal gender relations, and variable rates of female entrepreneurship. The relationship between welfare-oriented, state policies and women's economic risk aversion will also be investigated. Methods include household censuses of samples from the three islands, extensive interviewing of subsamples of male and female entrepreneurs, and life history analysis. This research will contribute to anthropological theories of gender and economic entrepreneurship, as well as to state level development planning that seeks to strengthen the "informal" sector of developing economies.