Women in the Caribbean

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.

The main focus is to analyze how these realities came to be and the consequences they have on the individual and community as social change occur (Massiah, 1986).

Women were obligated to maintain the duties of the household due to the increase in male emigration towards the end of the century of slavery (Anderson 1986).

This resulted in an increase in female workers and the structure of class started making its way through the cohort gender.

The urban, educated, French-speakers differ from the rural and newly arrived migrants living in Port-au-Prince.

Each extended family would live in their caille, but the compound was connected through communal working and under the authority of a patriarch.

The economic responsibility gives high independence and sometimes can lead to them to be of equal power to the working men.

[3] In the Haitian society, men and women are relatively equal when it comes to earning money, economic activities and household duties.

Haitian women are able to support and care for their children for a long period of time with very little help form men.