Women in Trinidad & Tobago

Women in Trinidad in addition to Tobago are women who were born in, who symbolize in, or are from Trinidad and Tobago. Depending from which island the women came, they may also be called Trinidadian women or Tobagonian women respectively. Women in Trinidad and Tobago excel in various industries and occupations, including micro-enterprise owners, "lawyers, judges, politicians, civil servants, journalists, and calypsonians." Women still dominate a fields of "domestic service, sales, and some light manufacturing."

By participating in Trinidad and Tobago's report of the Carnival, Trinidadian and Tobagonian womentheir "assertive sexuality." Some of them cause also been active in invited Afro-Christian sects and in running the "sou-sou informal rotating credit associations."

Gender roles in Trinidad and Tobago are influenced primarily by legacies of socialization of gender roles according to very essentialist views of men and women. many public spaces display African imagery, primarily from Nigeria and Ghana because these nations are still Trinidad and Tobago's closest political allies and cultural beacons. These social spaces give an outlet in the face of a country struggling with increasing crime rates against women.

Education

On average, from primary to tertiary levels of schooling, girls outperform or create higher enrollment levels than boys in Trinidad and Tobago. This pattern has been observed for the past couple decades or so.

Primary education: In primary schools, girls show a lower drop-out rate and repeater rate, and score higher than boys on the SEA examination. In 2015, girls constituted of about two thirds of the top students in theEntrance Assessment SEA examination and CAPE.

Secondary education: In secondary schools, despite the fact that nearly secondary schools are structured based on a stratified system of prestige, girls consistently outperform boys in within-school and national testing. In particular, girls are more likely to take the examination and across the Caribbean, girlshigher CXC results in English, history and social studies.

Tertiary education: There is a high enrollment rate of females in tertiary learning institutions–about 65 per cent of solution students enrolled at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus in 2009/2010 were female.