Gender Equality And Empowerment Of Women

There were approximately 45.3 million people in poverty in 2013. This number went up 37.3 million since 2007. (DeNavas-Walt 2014, p. 12). The number of poor individuals is the largest it has been in the 52 years. In Ruth Sidel essay “Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in Affluent America”, she talks about the public misunderstandings about America's poor society. Women should be helped equally, but Sidel does not focus enough on women helping themselves. Sidel assumes that being poor just unexpectedly happens to the female population. In the reading she uses real life stories of women. One reoccurring theme is that the men in their life left them or fail to help them out with the children. Poverty includes more than single women with children. People that are elderly and can’t work is included, disabled and handicapped veterans or people in the army are included. Women make up some of the poverty population, but men makes up the other part. In 2013, there were 14,704,900 poor women and 10,990,100 poor men according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Poverty isn’t just surrounded around women; men and children are included.

However, the contributions of women to the economy have gone unrecognized and unvalued. Also, there is unequal opportunities between men and women in the workforce, which means that women do not receive an opportunity at demonstrating their ability to lift themselves from poverty and similar issues, and their options to improve their lives are limited or nonexistent. However, I feel that what men do not realize when oppressing women is that women make up half of the world's population. This ultimately means that women also make up half the workforce. A nation that limits women and discriminates against them cannot reach it's full potential or productiveness. On the other hand, if a country's government, businesses, and overall, the communities invest in women, developing countries are less likely to be striken by poverty. Women are educated to wisely manage the money that they earn, which results in less poverty because they will know how to save and spend her money properly. To add on, economic empowered women raise healthier and better educated children, which results in children that will continue to manage money wisely, with their mother's guidance, and ultimately this would lead to a decrease in poverty. Economic empowerment means not only reducing

Another view of poverty is that is gender bias, that women are mostly like to live in poverty then men are, for this approach we going to discuss the Feminist Perspective. In 2006, 54 % of women lived in poverty ages 18 and over (NAPO 2006). This perspective uses the gender-based analysis, which works to understand the structures that contribute to women in poverty. Another interesting factor about this perspective is that it using the narrative analysis which focuses on women’s experiences with a symbolic approach which is put into data interpretation.

Extremes differ around the world but for fact in developed and developing countries the amount of women living in poverty is adamant. Looking at the developing countries Canada and India provides different ways of looking at poverty and how poverty is identified. Through Canada women deal with poverty when their income is below the poverty line or they are using over half of their income on necessities to live. In India women are encountering human poverty, which is being without basic needs creating factors such as illiteracy, malnutrition, early death, poor health care and no access to clean water. Despite some differences between the two countries’ economies, women in both Canada and India face similar issues with poverty “The poverty of women in Canada and India is increasing as a result of globalization, social policies that neglect women, inequality in employment, and existing gender-based social repression” (Argiropoulos and Rajagopal 2003:612). The inequality of employment is a major cause of poverty, once women have to enter the workforce an increase in feminization in the workforce has taken place. Women are then segregated into the certain areas in the workforce, which often pay less and demand a less amount of skill

Even though Barbara Ehrenreich does not specifically talk about the feminization of poverty, her experience in Nickeled and Dimed teaches us about the feminization of poverty in that she offers compelling evidence that women tend to be more likely than their male counterparts to be poor in the United States, mainly due to oppression and discrimination of women in the workplace as a result of stereotypical belief that they cannot handle some tasks. Barbara’s experience also teaches us about gender stereotypes within the

Women and poverty is one of the critical areas of concern from the Beijing Platform for Action. Unfortunately there is over 1 billion of who are women that are living in poverty. Most of the women who are living in poverty and in very poor condition are from developing countries, but we also have this problem here in the United States. Poverty has been a factor of little to no education, single mother raising their families, little resources, and pay gap. In the article of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Fourth World Conference on Women, one of the strategic objectives is, to analyze from a gender perspective, policies and programmers including those related to macroeconomic stability, structural adjustment, external debt problems,

The phrase or term "Feminization of Poverty" was coined by an American sociologist Dianna Pearle in the late 1970s. The term describes the growing trend of an increasing number of poor, single women head of household living in poverty. Feminization of poverty is the growing trend where the majority of the population living in poverty in the U S are women. Women are vulnerable to be living in poverty because they are more likely to bear the economic cost of caring for the children as head of the household. Added to this, women are paid less than men when they are employed with the same qualification doing the same job. In fact, according to Wiltz, T. (2015) in 2014, women working full time were paid 79 cents for every dollar men were paid, a

The culture of poverty is the belief that a country’s dominate culture is what determines the level of industrialization. For instance, in third (and some second) world countries, families that are barely able to farm out an existence are less likely to experiment with new techniques. Since they are unable to buy better equipment they are left with sticking to the way that has worked for generations. Some cultures also teach that if a person is satisfied with this life, then they will receive a higher status in the next life. Feminization of poverty is a condition in the U.S where low income households are often headed by females. This is often contributed to unwed pregnancy, divorce, and the fact that women usually get paid less than men.

The article focuses on the “feminization of poverty”, in which women are disproportionally living in poverty. This emerged from social and economic patterns that subject women to inequality. There is a significant relationship linking poverty to mental health and violence. Women

Reading Reflection Synthesis: The two themes in this week's reading, "The Growth in Poverty and Social Inequality: Losing Faith in Social Justice" by Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell, are the perspective society has of women in regards to working and being independent, and the vicious cycle of being born into poverty and continuing the never-ending loop. The perspective that society holds of women towards idea of working and freedom is something abstract. The reading talks about women struggling financially because of traditional gender stereotypes.

Poverty has increasingly become a noticeable issue worldwide over the past couple of decades. With the middle class steadily decreasing, considerable amounts of people are becoming part of the lower class, and even more of our world’s population are beginning to live in poverty. It is important to understand there are different definitions of poverty, and that is largely determined by what each country’s government determines as the cut off of poverty, otherwise known as the ‘poverty line’. Although some people could live above the poverty line, and still be struggling financially, it goes unrecognized by most research collection. However, what was initially noticed around the 1970’s is that there was a significant rise in women’s poverty statistics. More female-headed households were living in poverty, and a majority of those women belonged to a minority. This recognizable trend has been deemed the ‘feminization of poverty’, which according research is not only a growing problem in North America, but several other countries around the world. Information gathered about this issue in the United States shows that female-headed households is by far the fastest growing type of family structure, and due to the fact there is a growing poverty level amongst this group, it now means that approximately half of the all the poor in the United States live in a women-headed family and household. (Gimenez, 1999, p. 336) The biggest question when is comes to this particular topic is why?

Feminization of poverty is defined as, “A societal-level process over time in which the poor are increasingly made up of women and children” (Eshleman, 2010, p. 588). According to Lauren Abbate of Mount Holyoke College, “Feminization of poverty is the phenomenon in which women experience poverty at rates that are disproportionately high in comparison to men” (Abbate, 2010). It appears that,

This article addresses four main points. First, at the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the significance of women’s contribution was emphasized by the World Bank. However, according to the authors, the perception of women as goods was strengthened by the World Bank because of its emphasis on economic outcomes and its consequent failure to pay attention to the meaning of women’s empowerment and gender equality. Second, the World Bank, UN agencies and other institutions were observed to value only young women and girls, thus completely ignoring men’s role . Third, despite the existence of programs encouraging women empowerment such as microfinance and conditional cash transfers, women are forced to work for their livelihood coupled with the burden of housework. The authors also cast doubt on the notion that investing in young women and girls leads to the promotion of women’s empowerment and gender equality, or actually improves the economy as they are often unconsciously regarded as cheaper labor . Therefore, they underscored that while smart economics might

The first article, Gender Inequality, Income, and Growth: Are Good Times Good for Women? by David Dollar and Roberta Gotti, is a cumulated work that was published by The World Bank under the Development Research Group. Dollar and Roberti addressed three specific questions that they felt were strong factors in the implications economic development brought upon gender empowerment. The questions were constructed in efforts to respond to the macroeconomic data revealed through its answers. The questions are: 1. Is lower investment in girls’ education simply an efficient economic

This has contributed to a disparity in gender equality in the economic sector, as most opportunities for women have been severely overlooked. The United Nations, recognizing this, is committed to decreasing the gap between gender developments. The Economic and Financial Committee has declared the topic of women and development to be revisited and revised by the General Assembly on an annual basis. The issue of globalization and development is one of many agenda topics, however, and gender development is all encompassing, as it includes sectors at the regional and local levels.