Women in Central America Social Term Paper

Companies that are seeking to enter this market are likely to find it a difficult undertaking because the society remains backward. A company cannot sell products to a people who have no money, and that is the situation in China today. It is also the situation in Central America, but Central America would be much more responsive to the entry of outside companies offering funds for development and providing jobs for the people than is China. Helping develop the society, and especially including more women in the process, could also help with the difficult task of reducing the stranglehold some authoritarian regimes still have. Those regimes might be resistant, but they are also eager to have external investment that would benefit them. Business has to make certain that investment also benefits the people and contributes to change in a positive direction.

One of the women who helped bring the plight of women in Central America to light was Rigoberto Menchu, who wrote her own account of working in the coffee fields and of the conditions that prevailed there. Her work has been followed up by many other women, including many of the nuns who have fought back against the injustices of certain regimes and whom have suffered greatly for it. Zoilamerica Narvaez was a prominent leader of the women's movement in Nicaragua in the 1980s.A number of women have risen to prominence in the academic world in Central America, and these women as well are likely to have an influence on how their countries develop in the future.

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