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Mark Figueroa is a lecture in the Department of Economics, University
of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. His research interests include aspects
of the relationship between the economy and its socio-cultural and
natural environment. This has drawn him into a number of areas including
a longstanding interest in gender. In the early 1980s he was a founding
member of the University of the West Indies Women’s Studies
Group at Mona. More recently he has written a number of papers on
gender and socioeconomic outcomes focusing especially on the relationship
between historic male privileging and the changing patterns of gender
achievement in education. In exploring what he has called the dialectic
of gender privileging he has provided an alternative to those perspectives
that have been linked to concepts of male marginalization and male
victimization. His publications include:
“Making Sense of Male Experience: The Case of Academic Underachievement
in the English-speaking Caribbean”, IDS Bulletin Vol 31 No
2 April 2000, pp 68-74.
“Gender Privileging and Socio-Economic Outcomes: The Case
of Health and Education in Jamaica”, in Wilma Bailey (ed.),
Gender and the Family in the Caribbean, ISER, UWI, Mona, 1988, pp.
112-27.
March 2003
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