Over the last twenty years Caribbean women have gradually mobilised themselves to the point of changing their role in society and the family. Women are now more consistently outperforming men in the workplace and boys in the school setting. Women are increasingly owning property and choosing to raise children on their own. There exists more camaraderie among women and a number of national women's organisations have been formed to ensure their continuous empowerment. Men have found it difficult to adjust to this role change.
Men find women to be too assertive.
Others find it difficult to accept that women have their own resources. Increasingly men have aggressed against their women resulting in domestic abuse and even murder. The increased substance abuse among men along with drop out from school and high unemployment have been the concern from some quarters. Some are suggesting that this has amounted to a phenomenon generally referred to as male marginalisation. While it is true that there needs to some real strategy geared towards supporting men's adjustment to their new role, women are being made to feel that it is their fault that these changes have happened and that it is their responsibility to fix the situation.