Non-refereed Academic Output

Technical reports

  • Survey of Nature Parks and Wildlife Reserves in Trinidad and Tobago: Existing and Potential, National Environmental and Conservation Council (NECC), Ministry of Planning and Development, 1974.
  • Programme Document- Caribbean Region - Participatory Action Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (PAPLAC) 1988-1992, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), June 1988.
  • Programme Document - Policies for Rural Women in Trinidad and Tobago, Inter-American Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), 1990.
  • Social and Gender Implications of STABEX Transfers to Grenada, Report to the European Union, December 1995.
  • Women, Family and Family Violence in the Caribbean: The Historical and Contemporary Experience with Special Reference to Trinidad and Tobago (with Roanna Gopaul and Paula Morgan), prepared for the CARICOM Secretariat for International Year of the Family, 1995.
  • Enrolment Patterns of Women in Higher Agricultural Education: The Case of the University of the West Indies. Prepared for the United Nations, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), December 1996 (with Fredericka Deare).
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Situational Analysis of Gender Mainstreaming in Trinidad and Tobago, February 1997 (with Lynette Joseph-Brown).
  • Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Gender Affairs- Policy Document for the Introduction of a Centralised System of Data Collection on Domestic Violence in Trinidad and Tobago, 1999.
  • CARICOM Secretariat, Women and Family in the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Considerations 1999 (Edited).
  • United Nations Inter-Agency Campaign and UNDP: National Report- Gender Violence Against Women and Girls in Trinidad and Tobago, (with Rosalie Barclay and Roberta Clark), February 2000.
  • CIDA-Inc and Survival Systems Ltd. - Gender and Social Assessment of the offshore, Energy and Aviation Sector of Trinidad and Tobago (with Rosalie Barclay) 2000.
  • Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Community Development and Gender Affairs- Preparation of a National Gender Policy for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - 2003-2004 (Lead Researcher with Research Team).
  • International Labour Organisation, Reconciling Work with Family: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago, December 2005 (with Yvonne Bobb-Smith).
  • Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) The Impact of the Crisis on Women in the Caribbean, Brief No. 2, 2009 (with Juliana Foster).

Encyclopaedia Entries

  • Elma Francois- Entry in Women in World History, Yorkin Publications, Waterford Connecticut, 1994.
  • Households and Families: Caribbean- Entry in the Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Women- Routledge , New York, 2000.
  • "Trinidad and Tobago" Extended profile in Cheryl Kalny (ed.) The Greenwood Encyclopaedia of Women’s Issues Worldwide: North America and the Caribbean, Greenwood Press, Westport, 2003 pp. 301-328.
  • Audrey Jeffers- Entry in Encyclopaedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, Second Edition, 2006.
  • Elma Francois, Entry in Encyclopaedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas, Second Edition, 2006.
  • Elma Francois - Encyclopaedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture, ABC-CLIO, California, Colorado and Oxford, 2008 (Carole Boyce-Davies, editor).

Published Papers and Documents (Unrefereed)

  • "Multinationals and Female Labour in Latin America" with Ofelia Gomez in Scholas Journal Vol. 1, No.1, 1979, 60-88.
  • "Clotil Walcott and the Struggle of the Working Class Woman in Trinidad and Tobago" Published in A Graire Papiere by the Sozialwissenschatilihche Forschung und Praxis fur Frauen Köln, December 1980.
  • "The Working Class Woman and her Work Situation in Trinidad and Tobago" in Vrouwen en Werk en de Derde Werld, Leiden University, 1981, 56-88 (39 pages).
  • "Caribbean Women and the Struggle of the 1930s. A Pyrrhic Victory" in Caribbean Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1989 (17 pages).
  • "Douglarisation and the Politics of Gender Relations" in R. Deosaran, N. Mustapha and R. Reddock (eds) Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1994.
  • Overview of the Caribbean Sub-Project - Jamaica, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago in Women’s Movements and Organisations in Historical Perspective, Saskia Wieringa (ed.) (Summary Document of Project Report) 1989.
  • Intersections of Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Trinidad and Tobago. Paper presented at Special Rockefeller Humanities Seminar, Hunter College, CUNY, 6 May, 1993.
  • "Young Women and Poverty: A Caribbean View" in The United Nations in the Caribbean 1945-1995, October 1995.
  • "Gender Relations: A Changing Landscape" in Garth O.G. Alleyne (ed). The John Clifford Scaly Memorial Foundation, Port of Spain, 2000.
  • "Poverty and Statistics in Trinidad and Tobago: An Introduction" In Caribbean Dialogue, Special Issue- Poverty in Trinidad and Tobago, SALISES, UWI, St. Augustine Vol. 9, No. 4, October-December 2004 (backdated: actual publication date 2006).
  • "Editorial", in Feminist Africa (7) guest-edited volume, Diaspora Voices, December 2007.