Reasons for feminization of Poverty
Lesson 22 : Feminization of Poverty & Livelihoods
Reasons for feminization of Poverty
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Societal Factors
- Low payment of wages for the hours and load of work turning over
- Inadequate attention towards education of women
- Denied access to productive assets
- Employment in unorganized sector
- Seasonal employment, as most of the women are agriculture labourers
- Exercise of gender specific process while designing programmes and policies
- Burden due to structural adjustments
- Low access to food and other primary needs
- Femaleheaded families are disproportionately represented.
Personal Factors
- Illiteracy
- Ignorance
- Illiteracy
- Insecurity
- Inferiority
- Inability
- Injustice
Low Capabilities
- Low capabilities to be well nourished and healthy ( the proportion of children under five who are underweight)
- Low capabilities to reproduce healthily (the proportion of births unattended by trained health personnel);
- Low capabilities to be educated (represented by rates of illiteracy).
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