Latin American Experience

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After doing some research I found a quote that stood out to me, “In Latin America and the Caribbean, women’s experiences and prospects differ greatly based on their ethnicity (e.g. indigenous or Afro-descendant), their age (young or elderly), where they live (urban or rural areas), their citizenship status (residents of their own country or migrants) and whether or not they have children”(Mendelson Forman, 2017). This stood out to me because there are so many different circumstances that can contribute to a women’s experience. A lot of these circumstances can go hand in hand, for example: you are a younger Latin women that ended up being pregnant at a young age. You are young and with a child, and therefore are unable to finish school, because

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