Gaietry Pargass: The making of a human rights feminist lawyer
Gaietry Pargass was born in Carapichima, Trinidad and Tobago. After graduating from the Holy Faith Convent secondary school, she began working with the Caroni Research Station, at that time a male-dominated institution. As a Scientific Research Assistant, she was the sole female in a nonclerical post. This obvious inequity initiated Gaietry’s foray into social activism, which began at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies during the 1970s. After graduating from the Faculty of Agriculture with a Bachelor of Science degree, she held thepost of Agriculture Officer at the Crop Research Office in Centeno. This position enabled her to interact with rural women and women farmers that highlighted the different experiences of these women to those of their male counterparts. Her subsequent movement from Agriculture to Law ffacilitated a channelling of her social consciousness and activism into concrete changes. When she took on the post of Legal Advisor in the Ministry of Social Development in 1991, she incorporate gendered analyses of existing legislation, particularly around children’s and women’s rights
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| Format: | Article biblioteca |
| Language: | en_US |
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2013-07-03
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| Subjects: | environemntal lawyer, Gaietry Pargass, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2139/15821 |
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