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The feminization of poverty is a contested idea with a multitude of meanings and layers. Marcielo M. and Joana C. define feminization of poverty in two parts: feminization, and poverty. Feminization designates gendered change; something becoming more feminine, by extension more familiar or severe among women or female-headed households.
Feminization of the workplace – Lower paying female-dominated occupations such as (1) food preparation, food-serving and other food-related occupations, and (2) personal care and service. [ 3 ] Feminization of smoking – The phrase torches of freedom is emblematic of the phenomenon of tobacco shifting from being seen as a male activity to ...
[5] [6] Families in extreme poverty are even more dependent on women's work both inside and outside the home, resulting in longer days and harder work for women [6] The feminization of poverty is a concept that is applicable in both urban and rural settings.
A homeless mother and her child; The U.S. A homeless woman in Washington, D.C. When the UN declared the world “Homeless Crisis” in the mid 1980s, it set the stage for the politicized “feminization of poverty” discourse that had developed from initial research efforts on female poverty and homelessness. [8]
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity
Feminization of language, the process of making a word or name female; Feminization of migration, a trend where a higher rate of women migrate to labor or marriage; Feminization of poverty, a phenomenon in which women represent disproportionate percentages of the world's poor
Between 2004 and 2013, an estimated. 3,350,449. people were forced from their homes, deprived of their land or had their livelihoods damaged because they lived in the path of a World Bank project.
After her husband died in 2003, Maples struggled to get by. She lived below the poverty line, her sole income of about $1,000 a month from Social Security. Like many seniors, she was completely dependent on Medicare to pay her medical bills. By the fall of 2011, her health was often poor.