Women in Cuba are gaining ground in public life and earn the same wages as men. But the gender gap in the workplace is still a challenge for women, who are finding the odds more heavily stacked against them as the government of Raúl Castro adopts economic reforms aimed at "updating" the country's socialist system.
"I don’t know what to do," a 53-year-old Havana woman told IPS, after finding herself for the first time ever without the security of a state job.
Another woman, 39 and highly qualified, remembers the times when she sought an executive position in the tourism industry: "Nobody said as much to me, but I heard that I didn’t get the job because I have a young daughter."
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