Complex sentence: Women were confined to fighting for lower positions in the socioeconomic hierarchy and were always excluded from the more prestigious and skilled jobs (i.e. carpentry) among the limited amount of occupations available to Caribbean slave women, the most prestigious job was found to be nursing.
Split into simpler sentences: Women were confined to fighting for lower positions in the socio-economic hierarchy and were always excluded from the more prestigious and skilled jobs (i.e. carpentry). Among the limited amount of occupations available to Caribbean slave women, the most prestigious job was found to be nursing.