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Education and Work Preferences of African Diaspora Women in the United States

  • Dorothy K. Williamson-Ige (a1)
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Contemporary women from technological cultures are often perceived as self- rather than family- or relationship-oriented. Whether true or false, this perception creates problems in communication between males and females in the United States, especially in communities where black women grounded in African-world views attempt to respond to conflicting western cultural orientations. Issues of marriage, child-care, economics, employment, career advancement, and race relations have often contributed to the nexus of confusion surrounding the education and work of black women in a highly industrialised society.

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page 545 note 6 Knudsen, loc. cit. p. 160. This conclusion is corroborated by Bird, C., What Women Want (New York, 1977), and Wallace, P. M., op. cit.

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