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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"feminization of poverty"”.
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Feminization of poverty within rural households of Thulamela Municipality in South Africa
"Feminization of poverty" is a concept that has been a subject of interest for social and economic development scientists since the 1970s when Diana Pearce coined it. Over the past decades, many studies have been carried out in order to gain deeper insights into it. Most of the studies have …
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Inequitable, disparate outcomes for U.S. divorces in 2022: how gender and age moderate family income and divorce
… during the post-divorce recovery. Half a century of research on how much a divorce affects gender stays relevant even to this day. What are the heterogeneous effects of divorce on income? Female divorcées potentially have less time to recover from a gray divorce than male divorcées due to a …
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Women empowered: The Purkal Project – weaving the fibers of transformation through education and entrepreneurship in rural northern India
… this paper, the researcher presents the findings of this original qualitative study on the human experience of the participants of The Purkal Project, change-makers in social innovation that provide free, world-class education and vocational development in an economically challenged rural …
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The Impact of the College Experience on the Lives of Female Single-Parent Students
<p><em>Problem. </em> Poverty affects all people groups, but women are systematically poorer than men are. The feminization of poverty aptly defines the plight and consequence of women's poverty. In the United States the current federal mandate requires all able-bodied adults to be gainfully …