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PIP: The introduction of this article on the impact of the colonialization of Puerto Rico by the US on gender relations and women's status notes that development strategies facilitated women's integration in the formal sector but recreated gender inequity and inequality by positioning women in low-paying jobs. The next section provides an historical overview of "Operation Bootstrap," an early example of the creation of export processing zones and of initial legislation to improve the status of women in the labor force. Next, the current situation is described as a period characterized by contradictions and industrial restructuring as the economy has moved from labor-intensive manufacturing to provision of high-tech financial services, and the impact of these changes on gender relations is sketched. The population control policies of Operation Bootstrap are then described as seeking to regulate women's reproductive behavior rather than to improve reproductive health or redefine gender relations. The article continues with a look at the still pervasive constraints to the redefinition of gender roles in politics, where male dominance places women in competition with each other for the same positions. After tracing the second wave of feminist organizing and the responses of the state to feminist mobilization, the article concludes by reviewing the challenges feminists face in demanding equal employment opportunities, healthy working conditions for women, child care, and adequate public health in a system that rewards privatization and reductions in social services.^ieng
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Colonialismo , Economia , Estudos de Avaliação como Assunto , Feminismo , Indústrias , Relações Interpessoais , Política , Controle da População , Medicina Reprodutiva , Direitos da Mulher , América , Região do Caribe , Países em Desenvolvimento , Saúde , América Latina , América do Norte , Sistemas Políticos , Política Pública , Porto Rico , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
Analysis of the access to abortion in Puerto Rico is important because, together with Cuba, they are the only countries where abortion is legal in Latin America. This article analyzes the socio-political trends of the debate and discourses through which the discussion of the pro-option and antiabortion sectors have developed in the current situation of Puertorican law and their links with the arguments of those sectors in the United States. Even in this framework of legality, the right to abortion in Puerto Rico has been the object of a process of attacks by the antiabortion sectors that has limited its exercise, and it continues to be a taboo and polemical matter; maybe tolerated, but questioned and undermined as a right, and as a result, delegitimized. The Island situation makes it possible to consider that eradicating the legal prohibition of the practice is not a sufficient element for abortion to become a social need and a right of women in their own conscience, in public opinion and in state interventions.