The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California

摘要: This article examines the intersection of U.S. employment and gender relations in family lives Guatemalan Salvadoran immigrant women how immigration experiences affect gendered perceptions work. It is based on intensive interviews with 26 San Francisco 25 Guatemalan-ladinas indigenous Los Angeles, complemented ethnographic observations. The study shows that affects relations, sometimes transforming other times affirming them. Such changes do not depend automatically entering paid work but important social processes working outside home new context. A partial explanation can be found interaction between structure opportunity these Central Americans encounter their own position, such as ethnicity class. analysis prevents a universalizing portrayal women's simple or unidirectional terms.