Policy & Practice
The increased enrollment of women in tertiary institutions has had the following impact on women's employment outcomes:
a) Women are more likely to work part-time and be under-employed
b) Women are more likely to outpace men in full-time, stable employment.
A) The 2016 Barbados Survey of Living Conditions estimated that women are more likely to work part-time and be under-employed – i.e., they would like to work longer hours than they are currently employed to do.
Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a National Hero of Barbados.
True.
For the first time in history, this Caribbean country will have three women occupying the top constitutional offices simultaneously: Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and President.
What is the name of that country?
Trinidad and Tobago
In Barbados, (accounting for age and education) men outearn women by 5 percent.
False.
Men as a group earn 18% more than women.
In 2013, Jamaica passed a piece of legislation titled, National Policy for the Reintegration of School-Aged Mothers. Why do you think this had to be done?
Young mothers were systematically being denied access to schools to complete their secondary-school education after having a child.
Bahamas, like many other Caribbean countries, explicitly names marital rape as a sexual offense.
False.
The Bahamas is one of the few countries in the region to explicitly exclude marital rape from its definition of rape, except where spouses are legally separated or subject to separation proceedings.
A 2023 University of The Bahamas study found that 30 percent of Bahamian women were victims of rape in a long-term relationship, and over 50 percent of adults favoured changing the law to remove the marital exception in cases of rape.
https://www.tribune242.com/news/2025/jan/31/marital-rape-laws-not-expected-by-end-of-term/