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About MARIAL Freeman to study middle-class entrepreneurs in Barbados Middle-class entrepreneurs in Barbados are the focus of a study by Carla Freeman, an associate professor of women’s studies and anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta and a faculty fellow at the Emory Centre for Myth and Ritual in American Life. Her research, reported in the centre’s newsletter, “Families That Work,“ is ongoing. Freeman, also an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies, notes that “flexibility is another key concept for female entrepreneurs – and one of the main reasons they left their … jobs to start their own business.” She also expects her research to show that “some of the patterns of the work/family struggle we are witnessing are shared across culturally distinctive places in the world.” The professor plans to “contrast family life in Barbados with family life in America.” Freeman also observes that “in Barbados, women have always been workers and mothers, and the two have never been seen to be at odds with each other, the way they might be in Asia or Latin America.”
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