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

Browne/Freeman（9911743）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如何根据社会和家庭层面的限制而形成。这三个岛屿在妇女自营职业的发生率、当地的性别角色模式和妇女劳动力参与方面存在很大差异。限制妇女创业兴趣的关键因素既有体制方面的，也有意识形态方面的，这些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。 还将考虑三个岛屿的工作场所和州一级政策的变化。将对若干假设进行检验，包括职业隔离类型（按性别）之间的关系、弱/强父权制性别关系以及女性创业的可变比率。还将调查福利导向、国家政策与妇女经济风险规避之间的关系。 方法包括从三个岛屿的样本家庭普查，广泛采访的男性和女性企业家的子样本，和生活史分析。这项研究将有助于性别和经济创业的人类学理论，以及国家一级的发展规划，以加强发展中经济体的“非正规”部门。

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.