Cuban Revolution Dbq

Throughout history the inferiority of women has been prevalent for hundreds of years, and some countries tried to close the gap, one of them being cuba which ensued, following the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro now began to implement his vison for Cuba based off of his communist ideologies. Like Mao Zedong in China Castro looked towards women being one of the groups for support in Cuba. By 1990 many had felt that women’s lives had been changed for better, and now were able to partake in learning and jobs that weren’t available to them before the revolution; however others argued that more had to be done to remove the fragments of patriarchy that had still existed; Although it appeared the revolution had advanced the equality for women in

When speaking about the Cuban Revolutions effect on women, many point to the positive results, and how the revolution of 1959 had impacted their lives. Navarro, (Document 1) a Cuban socialist, femininst, discusses male authoprity that mother and daughters had to live under before 1959, she additionally points to how the Spanish civil law codes exercised patriarchial power, while attempts were made to override the tradition real change occurred with the communist revolution. Another woman who was interviewed by an U.S journalist (Document 7) points to the family code guaranteeing the rights of women, day-cares opened so women would not have to stay home and take care of her children all day, rather she could drop them at the day-care and go learn or work. Yolanda Ferrer (Document 2) the general secretary of the federation of Cuban women confirms that women are now able to work basic jobs that men would usually do; however she is a female politician and would support the government, but it is also noted that Genoveva