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A Writing Sample of my previous Academic Research
The Myth of Equality: Women and Political Participation in the Post-Colonial Caribbean
Abstract
This thesis examines women in political power and their level of equality and participation within parliamentary positions in the English- speaking Caribbean.
The research follows a post-colonial and Caribbean feminist theoretical framework. It focuses on Caribbean qualitative and quantitative studies, indigenous literature and copious narratives of said women's political experiences.
This study broadens the field further by designing, developing and advancing a complimentary approach for understanding women's current challenges in parliament through a Caribbean Feminist lens. The findings locate the phenomena of women's inequality in the post-colonial political environment, patriarchal structures, and political culture.
The larger implications found that there is a substantial connection between women's political inclusion at the policy level and greater representation of women within society. In the context of this region, women constitute a group that has been historically marginalized and the data presents a proposal through which Caribbean societies can develop an effective democratic construct for women's political inclusion that is meaningful and measurable, based on the precepts of equality and peace.
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