Myths and Mystifications around Gendered Poverty: Current Conceptual and Policy Concerns
Poverty is a complex and multifaceted lived experience and women commonly experience it as intersecting privations in assets, time, power, and income. In this poverty brief by the
Comparative Research Programme on Poverty at the
University of Bergen, Sarah Bradshaw, Sylvia Chant, and Brian Linneker debate the status of knowledge about women's poverty, and its relevance to poverty alleviation programmes. They identify a need for more accurate indicators of the extent and nature of women’s poverty to measure not only monetary privation, but gender inequalities in assets, time and power within households.
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