Subsistence and Survival: Strategies Women in the Republic of Barbados Engaged in Transactional Sex Work Employ to Stay Safe
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Women engaged in sex work (WESW) are at increased risk for exposure to work setting violence. This phenomenological study examines the experience of work setting violence and strategies utilized to maintain safety for WESW in Republic of Barbados in the Caribbean. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 cis-gender WESW in Barbados. This study found participants experienced work-related violence that includes physical assault, rape, robbery, kidnapping, and attempted murder. Participants were actively engaged in strategies for maintaining safety that were central to their business practices. Moreover, local HIV prevention intervention efforts including condom assertiveness training, free condom distribution, and rapid, accessible STI testing further enabled participants to assert and enforce safe business practices. Unfortunately, poor economic conditions at the time of the study, which reduced the market of available customers who were willing to pay full price while increasing the number of WESW, diminished the participants’ power to insist on safe business practices. This has implications for interventions to prevent and counteract gender-based violence, as well as gender-based social and economic development efforts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".