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Cuba: Gender Inequality Persists Behind Closed Doors

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2011-05-01 23:59

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While gender roles have changed since Cuba's 1959 revolution, inequalities persist among men and women in private life, and young people are both accepting that and breaking with it. The burden of the household falls on its female members, Guerrero, director of the Centre for the Study of Youth (CESJ), deplores. Worldwide, women devote at least twice as much time as their partners to domestic chores, according to the United Nations report "The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics". Having inherited women’s emancipation as part of the Cuban Revolution, some of today’s young people nonetheless had a sexist upbringing. The reproduction of female and male roles may be seen in many situations, adds Ana Isabel Peñate, also a researcher with the CESJ.



 

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Cuba: More than 8.2 Million Cubans Vote in Municipal Elections

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-04-29 07:45

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A total of 8 million 205,994 Cubans - 94.69 of voters -went to the polls on Sunday, according to the official report given by the president of the National Electoral Commission (CEN), Ana Maria Mari.

During a press conference on Monday in Havana, she described as victorious the first round of the electoral process held the previous day, in which the people elected 12,986 delegates.

All of the island’s provinces and the Isle of Youth special municipality registered over 92 percent attendance at electoral colleges, and in this first round of the elections there were 29,000 voters more than in 2007, highlighted Mari.

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