TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Immigration and Women's Empowerment: Salvadorans in Los Angeles
JO  - Gender and society
A1  - Zentgraf, Kristine m.
SP  - 625
EP  - 646
VL  - 16
IS  - 5
N2  - Recent discoveries that immigrant women often evaluate their experience more positively than men do have led to speculation that women view their public- and domestic-sphere status and power as having increased as a result of postimmigration employment outside of the home. This study, based on in-depth interviews with 25 Salvadoran women who migrated to Southern California in the 1970s and 1980s, challenges a unilinear, integrationist view that sees immigrant women's status and roles as changing along a traditional-modern continuum. Immigrant women's experiences and their perceptions of their experiences are quite diverse and complex. For many, paid employment outside of the home is not a new experience, and the household gender division of labor did not significantly change after migrating to the United States. However, women did report a sense of empowerment, newfound freedom, and selfconfidence as they negotiated traditional gender roles in a new social and cultural context.<p /> 
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SN  - 0891-2432
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124302236989
ID  - ref1
ER  -