Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship

Yonique Campbell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government at The University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of Citizenship on the Margins: State Power, Security and Precariousness in 21st-Century Jamaica (2020) and co-editor (with Professor John Connell) of COVID in the Islands: A Comparative Perspective on the Caribbean and the Pacific (2021). Her work has also appeared in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics and books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Routledge. Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers is a researcher and a former lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is the author of The Mixed Member Proportional System, Providing Greater Representation for Women? A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience (2017). She has researched and published on gender and identity politics in the Anglo-Caribbean and Canada. She adopts an intersectional approach to research to gain a more nuanced understanding of how different social categories, such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability, interact and shape people’s experiences of oppression or privilege.

1. Introduction: Gender Challenges in the Caribbean 2. Barriers, Biases, Boys’ Club: A Qualitative Study of the Underrepresentation of Female Politicians in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. 3. Debating the Illegality of Abortion Rights in Jamaica: Challenges for Gender Equality and Collaborative Governance Approaches 4. The Invisibility of LGBTQ Women in Violence against Women Legislation in the Anglo-Caribbean: An Intersectional Analysis. 5. Health Inequalities & the Gendered Impact of COVID-19 on Women 6. Conclusion