Challenges and Changes in Gendered Poverty: The Feminization, De-Feminization, and Re-Feminization of Poverty in Latin America

Feminist Explanations for the Feminization of Poverty

Female headship, feminization of poverty and welfare.

Female-headed households are at greater risk of slipping into poverty than male-headed households. Indeed, sex and marital status of the head of household are the most important determinants of a family's poverty status in the US. Divorce, separation, death of a husband, and out-of-wedlock births can lead to female headship. Transfer payments, especially the Aid to Families with Dependent Ch...

Re-thinking the "feminization of poverty" in relation to aggregate gender indices

The ‘feminisation of poverty’ is often referred to without adequate specification or substantiation, and does not necessarily highlight aspects of poverty which are most relevant to women at the grassroots. The UNDP’s gender indices go some way to reflecting gendered poverty, but there is scope for improvement. In order to work towards aggregate indices which are more sensitive to gender gaps i...

The feminization of medicine.

A GENERATION AGO A WOMAN’S ROLE IN MEDICINE WAS THAT OF A patient, and the thought of devoting an entire issue to the subject of gender was unheard of. But much has changed since 1970, when only 8% of practicing physicians and 13% of medical students were women. In the past 30 years, the white coat has opened to increasing numbers of women interested in pursuing a career in medicine. Bytheyear2...

Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct: the feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969-2000.

Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's, and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We suggest that by incorporatin...