Are men becoming marginalised? Successful women debate traditional gender roles

Mar 13, 2013

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua- Some of the top women in entrepreneurship in Antigua & Barbuda and the rest of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have put forward recommendations on how to address certain issues arising out of the evolution of the roles of men and women in society.
Their recommendations were made during panel discussions organised by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago (RBTT) in each OECS territory for International Women’s Day on Friday.
Among those on the local panel were Speaker of the House D Gisele Isaac who is also executive secretary of the Board of Education, Queen’s Counsel E Ann Henry, Reverend Belinda Manswell-Daniel, corporate secretary of the West Indies Cricket Board Verilyn Faustin, manager of Bryson’s Insurance Marjorie Parchment, and Ingrid O’Marde who is a consultant with Kingdome Consultants Inc and former general manager of Community First Co-operative Credit Union.

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