Trinidad Working Women Introduction

Introduction
An investigation into the changing roles women in the Gulf View area

Traditionally, women have been the employees of their own homes. For centuries, it was the men who worked jobs to make money and the women who remained at home to raise the children and fulfill the household duties. In today’s society, however, one may find many female citizens engaging in activities that would have been considered unacceptable in the past. In generations gone by, the double standard has defined the positions of both men and women permitting men more freedom than their female counterparts. For this reason, women are almost expected to undertake the roles imposed on them by society. However, evolution and technology has equipped females with the ability to branch into the non-conventional occupations completely defying the odds to compete in society as nothing less than equal to men.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. ~ Bella Abzug

The role of women is something that varies significantly across the world today. However, we can generally say that women's roles have revolutionized from what they traditionally were in the past to what they are today. This is especially true in more developed countries; with the recent recognition of Trinidad as being a developed country, changes such as these are most definitely present in our society. In the past, the woman's role was to bear children and care for them. As part of that caring, women have been very involved in food preparation and household maintenance in particular. With the existence and vast advancements in technology, communication and infrastructure transpiring today, the assumed role of the woman as the caregiver has ceased to be the only acceptable role in some parts of the world and in some cultures. The Caribbean society is one which has openly embraced this concept and as seen in