Author: Paula vW. Dáil
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078648814X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Despite an overhaul in the 1990s, the American welfare system remains with a business model focused on the bottom line. Crafted by male-dominated legislative bodies whose members most likely never had to choose between paying the rent or feeding their kids, established policies primarily protect the popular programs that ensure politicians' re-election. This book offers a feminist perspective on the 21st century attitude toward poverty, illustrated by the words of women forced to live every day with social policies they had no voice in developing. Topics include the struggles of daily life, crime, health care, education, employment, and a discussion of capitalism, inequality, greed, and moral obligation in a free society. In the unrestrained pursuit of wealth, this work shows that America has created a vast poverty problem, making the rich richer and forcing the poor into a forgotten class.
Author: Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heads of households
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: Heidi I. Hartmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135803234
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women’s poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance. Women, Work, and Poverty illuminates the changes in the causes of women’s poverty following welfare reform in the United States, using up-to-date research that’s both qualitative and quantitative. Taking racial and ethnic diversity into account, the book’s contributors examine new findings on the feminization of poverty, the role of children and the lack of child care as an obstacle to employment, labor market policies that can reduce poverty and improve gender wage equality, sex and race segregation in the labor market, and the low quality of jobs available to low income women. Women, Work, and Poverty examines: marriage, motherhood, and work pay equity and living wage reforms community resources welfare status and child care acquiring higher education advancing women of color income security repaying debt after divorce gender differences in spendable income women’s job loss Women, Work, and Poverty is an invaluable aid for academics working in social work, social policy, women’s studies, economics, sociology, and political science, and for policy researchers, anti-poverty activists, and women’s leaders.
Author: Heather E. Bullock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118378776
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Women and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factorsthat contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women'spoverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation ofwomen's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual andinterpersonal levels. Provides readers with a critical analysis of the social andstructural factors that contribute to women's poverty Uses a multidisciplinary approach to bring together newresearch and theory from social psychology, policy studies, andcritical and feminist scholarship Documents women's experiences of poverty and classism at theinterpersonal and institutional levels Discusses policy analysis for reducing poverty and socialinequality
Author: Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199718207
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this outstanding collection compares the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries. By identifying the social and economic policies that enable women to live independently, Poor Women in Rich Countries provides nothing less than a blueprint for abolishing women's poverty.
Author: Sylvia H. Chant
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847206883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The 'feminisation of poverty' is viewed as a global trend, and of particular concern in developing regions. Yet although popularisation of the term may have raised women's visibility in development discourses and gone some way to 'en-gender' policies for poverty reduction, the construct is only weakly substantiated. This work covers this topic.
Author: Randy Pearl Albelda
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896085657
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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'This extraordinarily lucid book demonstrates that women from all walks of life get the short end of the stick because of their gender. From welfare mothers to corporate executives, Albelda and Tilly show and why the powers-that-be benefit from scapegoating and marginalizing women.' Professor Mimi Abramowitz, author, Regulating the Lives of WomenA cogent analysis of the economic and social realities for women in the United States, across class lines. In an age when the right wing manipulates the dialogue around women's issues to separate middle- and upper-class women from their poorer sisters this book's facts, figures, and analysis provide a much needed antidote.
Author: Diane Dujon
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896085299
Category : Poor women
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Brings together the words of welfare mothers, activists and advocates, as well as scholars in a poignant and powerful challenge to the impoverishment of women.
Author: Susan L. Thomas
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Andrew Morrison
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Communities and Human Settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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Abstract: This paper reviews empirical findings from economic analyses of the role of gender equality and women's empowerment in reducing poverty and stimulating growth. Going beyond the large literature documenting the impact of female education on a range of development outcomes, the paper presents evidence on the impact of women's access to markets (labor, land, and credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty reduction and growth at the macro level. Although micro level effects of gender equality on individual productivity and human development outcomes have been well documented and have important ramifications for aggregate economic performance, establishing an empirical relationship between gender equality and poverty reduction and growth at the macro level has proven to be more challenging. The paper concludes by identifying priority areas for future research.
