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Women and the division of labor: a Jamaican example
American anthropologist • 74 (3) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 689-692
By: Pollock, Nancy J..
Abstract
Based on data gathered in two rural western Jamaican communities, this brief source is concerned with how women's status and economic activities change in relation to household structure within the lifecycle of the individual. Within rural villages, there is a shortage of young men due to local economic constraints and labor migration. Young women begin bearing children in free unions and become the principal provider for their families, largely through cultivating crops. However, by middle age, men typically return to the community, marry, and become heads of households. At this point, women become less active in the economic sphere.
- Subjects
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Household
- Child care
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field Date
- 1964 (3 months)
- Coverage Date
- 1964
- Coverage Place
- western Jamaica
- Notes
- Nancy J. Pollock
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Jamaica--Social life and customs