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Has Socialism Contributed to Gender Role Changes? A Comparison of Gender Roles in Cuba and Japan

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Gender and Development

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Abstract

Gender issues in socialist countries have been discussed by many scholars. Most of them acknowledge that socialism succeeded in sending women to work outside their homes, while the domestic burden was not lifted from their shoulders, even when they had jobs. Therefore, women have dual responsibilities, both at work and at home. This is also true in the Cuban case. In spite of the progressive Family Code of 1975, which provides for husbands and wives sharing domestic work and child care, there have been few couples who honour this provision. Cuban machismo is still fully alive under the socialist regime.

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  1. Kanako Yamaoka
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  1. Area Studies Center, IDE-JETRO, Japan

    Mayumi Murayama (Director of the South Asian Studies Group) (Director of the South Asian Studies Group)

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Yamaoka, K. (2005). Has Socialism Contributed to Gender Role Changes? A Comparison of Gender Roles in Cuba and Japan. In: Murayama, M. (eds) Gender and Development. IDE-JETRO Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524026_7

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