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Professor Barbara Bailey has been Regional
Coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, UWI
since 1995. Prior to that she was the specialist lecturer in Curriculum
Studies in the School of Education, Mona. In recent years Dr. Bailey’s
teaching and research focus has been on ‘Gender and Education
Studies’, with particular emphasis on gender issues in education
and the relationship of educational outputs to outcomes in the economic,
social and political spheres for either sex. She has published a number
of articles addressing various issues related to this topic including
a monograph in a series put out by UNESCO as part of the ‘Education
for All in the Caribbean Assessment 2000’ titled Gender and
Education in Jamaica: What About the Boys?
Professor Bailey has been part of the international women’s
movement for the past two decades. She was a member of the
Government of Jamaica’s delegation to the 3rd World
Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the 1995 4th World Conference
in Beijing, China and the 2000 Beijing +5 Special Session
of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She was
also a consultant to CARICOM member states at preparatory
meetings leading up to the New York meeting. Over the period
2000 to 2003 Professor Bailey was also the Government of Jamaica’s
representative on the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
Consultative Committee.
Abstract: The
Caribbean Experience in the International Women’s Movement:
Issues, Process,
Constraints, Opportunities
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