In El Tropical , we conducted several free and structured interviews with Afro women from January to April 2016 , in order to know their perceptions related to the types of work they can perform according to their skin color . The latter is appreciated by them as a negative and limiting factor for possible employment . After applying these methods , we found that of 70 women surveyed and interviewed , 45 were black and 25 mestizas , distributed among the age groups of 15 to 20 years ( 10 ), 21 to 30 ( 24 ), 31 to 40 ( 14 ), 41 to 50 ( 4 ), 51 to 60 ( 3 ) and older than 61 ( 15 ).
They stated that Afro women have almost no opportunities to be employed as business managers or in the tourism sector . To the question about who has better chance for being employed in such positions , 57 ( 81.42 %) responded that white women ; 10 ( 14 %), that mestizas ; and only 3 ( 4.2 %) that black women . About jobs like kitchen help , auxiliary staff for cleaning and street vendor , 54 ( 77 %) said that the black women are usually engaged in these occupations ; 14 ( 24 %) said that mestizas and 2 ( 2.8 %) said that white women .
For us , knowing their perception has utmost importance , since the powers that be are insisting in the same structured discourse about total absence of racial discrimination and inequality . The term poverty itself has had wide discussion in the field of social sciences . In quantitative studies , several scholars and researchers recognize the magnitude of the problem , but they tend to diminish their severity by emphasizing a less strong terminology , such as population at risk or poverty with protection , which aims to distinguish a peculiarity of poverty in Cuba . Thus , they continue under the same slogan that we all , men and women , are equal . And that simply is not so .
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