ABSTRACT
This article looks at the factors responsible for the high rate of labor force participation among Cuban women in the United States by studying a sample of 107 Cuban-born women in Hudson County, New Jersey. It is perplexing that so many Cuban women in the United States work, given the strong disapproval of female work outside the home in prerevolutionary Cuba. This study suggests that one of the strongest reasons behind the high labor force participation of Cuban women in the sample is the predominantly middle-class origin and/or ideology of Cuban immigrants. The upward mobility of the Cuban family in the United States seems to justify the massive entrance of women into the labor force.
