edited by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg & Eleanor Kremen.
New York :
Greenwood Press,
1990.
1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Contributions in women's studies,
no. 117
0147-104X ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 The Feminization of Poverty: Discovered in America; 2 The United States: Feminization of Poverty Amidst Plenty; 3 Canada: Bordering on the Feminization of Poverty; 4 Japan: A Special Case; 5 Labor Market and Family Policy in France: An Intersecting Complex for Dealing with Poverty; 6 Sweden: Promise and Paradox; 7 Socialism: An Escape from Poverty? Women in European Russia; 8 Poland: A Country of Conflicts; 9 The Feminization of Poverty: Not Only in America; Index; About the Editors and Contributors.
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The authors show convincingly that the feminization of poverty, although most advanced in America, is an international trend. By examining the same set of factors in seven countries, they unravel the reasons why. Their special contribution is the integration of developments in each country's labor market with gender, social policy, and inequality. Lucid, careful, and systematic, the book builds a compelling explanation for the needless impoverishment experienced by millions of American women and offers a sensible, realistic agenda for its reduction.
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Feminization of poverty.
9780275936914
Poor women-- United States.
Poor women, Cross-cultural studies.
Women heads of households-- United States.
Women heads of households, Cross-cultural studies.
Femmes chefs de famille-- États-Unis.
Femmes chefs de famille, Études transculturelles.
Femmes pauvres-- États-Unis.
Femmes pauvres, Études transculturelles.
Armut
Aufsatzsammlung
Frau.
Geschichte (1950-1988)
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.