Changes in gender ideology among professional women and men in Cuba today

Abstract

This presentation summarizes the reflections of what it means to be women and men in Cuba today, among a group of Havana professionals. I asked them to emphasize the influence in this process of women’s employment and decision making among women, two citizen rights which have been strongly promoted in Cuba in the last forty years. I also asked them to think about the socialization processes, which took place in Cuba and which contributed to these changes. Therefore, this paper is divided into two main topics: first, changes in gender ideology among Cuban professional men and women under the influence of women’s employment, and, second, sociological processes leading to these changes