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Mark Figueroa is a lecturer 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
Abstract: Challenging
Gender Priveleging: A Caribbean Experience
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