May 29 2007
Poverty Has A Woman Face
Gender-based power relation means that women experience poverty differently and more forcefully than men do and women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty because of gender inequality in the distribution of income, access to productive inputs, such as credit, command over property or control over earned income, as well as gender biased in labor markets. (Nilufer Cagatay, Trade, Gender and Poverty, London: UNDP, 2001)
Read my complete article in the following site:
http://afeministblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/poverty-has-women-face.html
Thanks a bunch,
Nana