The Myth Of The Male Breadwinner

This book examines the debate about the effects of paid employment on women through studies of women industrial workers in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. It focuses on following areas of women's lives: wages and working conditions; the family, life cycle, and household composition.

Helen I Safa

Preface -- Gender and Industrialization in the Caribbean Basin -- The Male Breadwinner and Women's Wage Labor -- Women Workers and the Rise and Decline of Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap -- The Dominican Republic: Export Manufacturing and the Economic Crisis -- Cuba: Revolution and Gender Inequality -- Conclusion: Economic Restructuring and Gender Subordination