Politics and Policies of the Feminization of Poverty

Author(s):  
MARY JO BANE
Author(s):  
Alejandra Aguilera Cano

This work presents the experience with indigenous women in Mesoamerica establishing a relationship between gender and energy, drawing the attention of injustices translated into energetic racism that perpetuates the feminization of poverty, non the less leading to a defense of life and territory manifesting in the women-led “web of life” decolonizing territories, as internal and external borders like «Nepantleras».


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Carolina Pinzón Estrada ◽  
María Victoria Aponte Valverde

 Resumen: Este trabajo presenta un análisis de laausencia de capital social de las mujeres cabeza dehogar del barrio Arabia, de la localidad 19 de CiudadBolívar en Bogotá. La descripción está basada en datostomados por medio de encuestas, entrevistas y visitas ala comunidad, que permitieron evidenciar muchos delos problemas por los cuales pasan cada una de estasmadres cabeza de hogar, como la pobreza, la falta deacceso a la educación, tanto para ellas como para sushijos e hijas, el alto índice de desempleo. Como factoradicional que aumenta su vulnerabilidad, encontramosuna situación de desconfi anza en el entorno y debilidaddel tejido social que les hace imposible emprenderacciones para solucionar problemas comunitarios.Palabras claves: Feminización de la pobreza, capitalsocial, mujeres cabeza de hogar.Absence of Social Capital and Vulnerability forWomen Heads of the HouseholdAbstract: This work offers an analysis of the absenceof social capital of women heads of household in theArabia neighborhood, locality 19 Ciudad Bolivar inBogotá. The description is based on data collected insurveys, interviews and visits to the community, showingmany problems faced by each of these women heads ofhouseholds, such as poverty, lack of access to educationboth for themselves and for their children, the high rateof unemployment. As an additional factor increasing theirvulnerability, we fi nd their mistrust of their environmentand weakness of the social tissue that prevents them fromundertaking actions to solve their community’s problems.Keywords: Feminization of poverty, social capital,female – headed households.


1992 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Ruth Sidel ◽  
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg ◽  
Eleanor Kremen

Author(s):  
Laura G. Ritenburg

Poverty is disproportionately experienced among men and women. Gender plays a significant role when examining the effects and problems that poverty poses. While poverty can be experienced in differing extremes, it is women who suffer higher poverty rates in almost all societies (Christopher et al.). It is people with disabilities, recent immigrants, and racialized men and women who face additional disadvantages and “all of these groups have extremely high rates of low income and, in all of them, women are the most vulnerable” (Townson). In this paper I discuss how the ‘feminization of poverty’ has created a situation where the number of women in poverty far outnumbers that of men, and how the discourse of feminized poverty is directly affected by the processes and structures of social exclusion. I argue that gender significantly influences the experience and response to urban poverty in Canada through unequal caregiving responsibilities, the dynamics that surround pay inequality, and inadequate government programs.


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