what were some of the effects on the roles of women from the Cuban revolution?

Between 1953 and 1974, there was a 14.1 percent increase in the number of salaried women in the national work force. Even more significant were the changes in the kind of work women did. In 1953 domestic work represented 25 percent of the total female work force, but by 1970 this occupational category had disappeared.

Another change involved the elimination of underage women in the work-force. In 1953, women ten to fourteen years old represented 10.9 percent of the work-force, but by 1970 nearly no women workers could be found in this age category.

Finally, certain sectors of industry, which had been traditionally closed to women before the revolution now saw the highest percentage of female employment, including textiles, beverages, tobacco, chemicals, food and graphic arts. So reports Max Azicri in "International Journal of Women's Studies", Vol. 2, No. 1 (1981).

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