This study addresses the way gender mediates the lives of employed immigrant women in an ethnic minority community. Light is shed on the interplay of race-ethnicity, social class, and history and generates multiple contexts within which individual and collective attitudes are situated.

This study addresses the way gender mediates the lives of employed immigrant women in an ethnic minority community. Light is shed on the interplay of race-ethnicity, social class, and history and generates multiple contexts within which individual and collective attitudes are situated.

Part 1 - Introduction and overview. Part 2 - Literature review: Gender roles in the US
mainstream gender role patterns in US society
intersection of race-ethnicity and class, gender role patterns in US immigrant communities
gender roles among asian indians and other US minorites
gender roles in the indian culture and sociaty
conceptual-theorectical background. Part 3 - Research methodology. Part 4 - Questionnaire resluts. Part 5 - Interview resluts. Part 6 - Analysis and interpreatation: change and continunity
correlates of gender and orientation
comparison with immigrant women in ealrier ethnic groups
comparison with contemporary white women
emerging typology Pat 7 - Discussion and conclusion: Centrality of waged work
immigration and empowerment
developnuing sense of selfhood
ethinic identity and selfhood
transnational identity
indian women as reference group
structural constraints and cultural continuity
gender role orientation
behaviuoral duality
contribution of the research
dircetions for future research
conculsion - betwixt and between.