Women in the Caribbean

Bronze Woman, a statue in Stockwell Memorial Gardens in the London Borough of Lambeth. It was designed by Ian Walters and completed, following his death, by Aleix Barbat. It was inspired by a poem written by local resident Cecile Nobrega and honors women of the Caribbean community. It was unveiled in October 2008.

Women in the Caribbean are women who were born in, who live in, or are from the region of the Caribbean in the Americas. Historically, Caribbean women have been significant contributors to the economy and the "domestic sphere" of the Caribbean region since the time of slavery, during the time of "free labor forces" in the late 19th and 20th centuries, as well as during the time of "contemporary politics" and economics. Their position and status may vary "among Caribbean societies", cultural groups, and geographical locations, that have different language backgrounds which include English-, Spanish-, and French-speaking communities in the West Indies.

See also

• Women in the Americas
• Women in Cuba
• Women in the Dominican Republic
• Women in Guyana
• Women in Haiti
• Women in Suriname
• Women in Trinidad and Tobago
• Women in the British Virgin Islands
• Women in Puerto Rico
• Women in the United States Virgin Islands

Further reading

• WOMEN IN THE CARIBBEAN PROJECT: An Overview, JSTOR.org
• Massiah, Joycelin. MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: INDICATORS FOR PLANNING FOR WOMEN IN CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT, Prepared for Unesco
• Massiah, Joycelin (editor). Women and the Family. Women in the Caribbean Project, Volume 2., Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados, 1982, pp. 182.
• Massiah, Joycelin (editor). Women and Education. Women in the Caribbean Project, Volume 5., 1982, pp. 96.
• Bolles, A. Lynn. Claiming Their Rightful Position: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Working Papers No. 13, 1992 Lecture Series, Discovering the Americas, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Maryland, College Park, 1992, 34 pp.
• Bush, Barbara. A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women, a review of Lucille Mathurin Mair's A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp., ISBN 978-976-640-166-5 (cloth); ISBN 978-976-640-178-8 (paper).
• RECONSTRUCTING BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE CARIBBEAN, JSTOR.org
• Shepherd, Verene A., Bridget Brereton, and Barbara Evelyn Bailey. Engendering History: Caribbean Women in Historical Perspective
• Morrissey, Marietta. A Review of Women and Change in the Caribbean, a work edited by Janet H. Momsen. Kingston: Ian Randle; Bloomington: Indiana University Press; London: Currey, 1993. x, 320 pp.