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For example, 6.2% of female immigrants in Mexico have bachelor's degrees as compared to the 5.0% of male immigrants in 2012. 14% of the women immigrants from the Dominican Republic have bachelor's degrees compared to the 12% of Dominican men. [21]
The first Dominican American New York County Supreme Court Judge was Rolando T. Acosta; Camelia Valdes, the first Dominican American to become a head prosecutor or district attorney in U.S. history; [76] [77] Adriano Espaillat and Grace Diaz, respectively the first Dominican American person and the first Dominican American woman to be elected ...
Today, emigration from the Dominican Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican communities in the United States. [79] Besides the United States, significant numbers of Dominicans have also settled in Spain and in the nearby U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Dominicans in New York Dominican Day Parade.
Three men from the Dominican Republic have been extradited to New Jersey to face charges relating to a massive grandparent scam” that stole millions.
Dominican Republic authorities have stopped short of confirming a Delaware woman's story about a brutal attack at an all-inclusive hotel that left her fighting for her life, the New York Post reports.
A project by actors, producers and activists Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez puts a spotlight on a family of Dominican women who fought against a brutal dictatorship and gave up everything in the ...
Plácido Polanco – Dominican born Major League Baseball player, plays for the Philadelphia Phillies and has also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers; in 2008, he became a naturalized American citizen; Albert Pujols – Dominican-American professional baseball first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball
Culturally, however Dominican women live under a machista tradition, where women understood and to a certain degree accepted the machismo nature of Dominican men. By tradition, Dominican Republic women are expected to be submissive housewives, whose role in the household include childbearing and rearing, taking care of and supporting their ...