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What Does Feminization of Poverty Mean? It Isn't Just Lack of Income

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

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This paper challenges the use of poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty. It proposes an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces.

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, 1999. "What Does Feminization of Poverty Mean? It Isn't Just Lack of Income," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 99-103.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:5:y:1999:i:2:p:99-103
    DOI: 10.1080/135457099337996
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    1. Maitra, Chandana & Rao, D.S. Prasada, 2015. "Poverty–Food Security Nexus: Evidence from a Survey of Urban Slum Dwellers in Kolkata," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 308-325.
    2. Sanjay CHOPRA, 2020. "Measuring feminisation of urban poverty among domestic workers in Delhi, India," Smart Cities and Regional Development (SCRD) Journal, Smart-EDU Hub, vol. 4(1), pages 103-123, March.
    3. Espinoza-Delgado, José & Klasen, Stephan, 2018. "Gender and multidimensional poverty in Nicaragua: An individual based approach," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 466-491.
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    5. Irène Berthonnet, 2023. "Where Exactly Does the Sexist Bias in the Official Measurement of Monetary Poverty in Europe Come From?," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 55(1), pages 132-146, March.
    6. John Owusu-Afriyie & Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, 2014. "An Individual Level Test of the “Feminization of Poverty†Hypothesis," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 30(1), pages 25-43, March.
    7. Elizabeth Durbin, 1999. "Towards a Gendered Human Poverty Measure," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 105-108.
    8. Chant, Sylvia, 2003. "New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective," Asuntos de Género 5910, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    9. John Ataguba & William M. Fonta & Hyacinth E. Ichoku, 2011. "The Determinants of Multidimensional Poverty in Nsukka, Nigeria," Working Papers PMMA 2011-13, PEP-PMMA.
    10. León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando & Moreno, Jose Luis, 2017. "A Very Brief Approximation to What Is the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen?," MPRA Paper 80103, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 05 Jun 2017.
    11. Oliveri, Mario Nicolás, 2013. "Feminización de la pobreza en España: un análisis del estado de la cuestión [Feminization of poverty in Spain: a state-of-the-art review]," MPRA Paper 47892, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Irène Berthonnet, 2021. "Where Exactly Does the Sexist Bias in the Official Measurement of Monetary Poverty in Europe Come From?," Post-Print halshs-03176142, HAL.
    13. Chandana Maitra & Prasada Rao, 2014. "An Empirical Investigation into Measurement and Determinants of Food Security in Slums of Kolkata," Discussion Papers Series 531, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
    14. Min Kwon & HyungSeon Kim, 2020. "Psychological Well-Being of Female-Headed Households Based on Age Stratification: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in South Korea," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(18), pages 1-12, September.
    15. León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando & Lascarro Camargo, Lorena Eloisa, 2017. "Una muy breve aproximación a ¿Qué es el enfoque de capacidad de Amartya Sen? [A very brief approximation to ¿What is the capability approach of Amartya Sen?]," MPRA Paper 76840, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 09 Jan 2017.

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