WORK STYLE AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 14 (3) , 435-456
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124300014003005
Abstract
Working women in the Caribbean and Latin America are more active in the labor market than their counterparts in most other regions of the world. Yet, they remain much less economically mobile than working men. Using research from a long-term study in Martinique, this article offers a new view of the cross-class construction of women's economic immobility. Research results suggest that irrespective of a woman's socioeconomic status, household structure, education, skills, or freedom from domestic chores, the organization of her work is patterned in ways that preclude economic growth. When women try to “get ahead,” they invest more of their own time; men, by contrast, put others to work. I argue that these and other gender-based patterns of work organization and network management express a hidden but enduring legacy of a patriarchal value system.Keywords
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