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Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico

In: Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context

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  • Maxine Molyneux

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In Latin America as elsewhere in the world, gender bias and masculine prerogative have prevailed in social policy as in social life more broadly, with entitlements resting on culturally sanctioned and deeply rooted notions of gender difference and patriarchal authority. These have generally accorded with idealized assumptions about the asymmetric social positions occupied by the sexes with male breadwinners and female mother-dependents receiving benefits according to these normative social roles. Such assumptions have proved remarkably universal and enduring even where, as in Latin America, gender divisions have been modified by women’s mass entry into the labour force and by equal rights legislation.

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  • Maxine Molyneux, 2006. "Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico," Social Policy in a Development Context, in: Shahra Razavi & Shireen Hassim (ed.), Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, chapter 2, pages 43-67, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:sopchp:978-0-230-62528-0_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625280_2
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    1. Cecilia Parada, 2023. "Cash Transfers and Intra-Household Decision-Making in Uruguay," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 44(3), pages 757-775, September.
    2. Puorideme, Dennis & Rolandsen Agustín, Lise, 2023. "The discursive construction of gender identities and roles for women in cash transfer programmes: Implications for gender power relations," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
    3. Sirojuddin Arif & Muhammad Syukri & Widjajanti Isdijoso & Meuthia Rosfadhila & Bambang Sulaksono, "undated". "Is Conditionality Pro-Women? A Case Study of Conditional Cash Transfer in Indonesia," Working Papers 289, Publications Department.
    4. Margolies, Amy & Colantuoni, Elizabeth & Morgan, Rosemary & Gelli, Aulo & Caulfield, Laura, 2023. "The burdens of participation: A mixed-methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on women’s time use in Malawi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).

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