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  2. Women in Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Female presence and demographics differ during the major periods of Guyana's history.The origin of Guyanese diversity is the European colonial creation of a "stratified, color-coded social class." [ 5 ] : 9 Women's roles in a plantation society reflected their racial identity and their perception as "maintainers of culture".

  3. Indo-Guyanese - Wikipedia

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    95% of all the Immigrants left from the port of Calcutta (Kolkata), and 5% from the port of Madras (Chennai). Note, no Immigrants left from the port of Bombay (Mumbai) to Guyana during the period of 1838 to 1917. Based on the names and information on the Indian Emigrant passes, 85% of the Indian immigrants to Guyana were Hindus and 15% Muslims.

  4. Guyanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    An average of 6,080 people a year emigrated from Guyana between 1969 and 1976, increasing to an average of 14,400 between 1976 and 1981. [3] [4] Many of the first Guyanese immigrants to the United States were of African descent. They were women who were recruited as domestic workers or nursing assistants. [5]

  5. Demographics of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    This is a demography of Guyana including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Guyana's population (Guyanese people) is made up of five main ethnic groups: Indians, Africans, Amerindians, Europeans (mainly Portuguese), and Chinese ...

  6. Category:History of women in Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Women's rights in Guyana (3 P) This page was last edited on 14 March 2024, at 21:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  7. Chinese Guyanese - Wikipedia

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    Hall, Laura Jane (1995), The Chinese in Guyana: the making of a Creole community, Ph.D. dissertation, Berkeley: University of California, OCLC 34438537 Moore, Brian L. (1988), "The settlement of Chinese in Guyana in the Nineteenth Century", in Johnson, Howard (ed.), After the crossing: immigrants and minorities in Caribbean Creole society ...

  8. Category:Women in Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Women in Guyana This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 22:41 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  9. Guyanese people - Wikipedia

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    Racism in Guyana has roots in the control of labour, so that plantation owners could maintain a stratified society of subservient workers and limit competition for the highest social class. Many segments of society are divided by race, such as religion, politics, even industries.