Feminization of Poverty: Mainstreaming gender to understand the multidimensionality of poverty. 2015
| Autor: | Dahiana E. Ayala Alfonso |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Población y Desarrollo, Vol 21, Iss 41, Pp 17-28 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2076-054x 2076-0531 2076-054X |
| DOI: | 10.18004/pdfce/2076-054x/2015.021(41)017-028 |
| Popis: | The phenomenon of poverty in Paraguay, has been experiencing a downward trend, historically in the country in poverty and especially extreme poverty has had its point of concentration in rural areas. In 2014, 22.4% of the population lived in poverty, affecting 16.2% of the urban population and 32.0% of the rural population, in terms of extreme poverty, it affects 10.5% of the population, where 73.6% are people from rural areas. This paper examines poverty from a gender perspective, on the assumption of the beginning of a process of feminization of poverty; the goal is to analyze the situation of poor women nationwide from the household survey in 2014. The main results shows that the national poverty reveals that 18.1% of women are in this situation, compared to 16.6% of men, in rural areas poverty is larger for both sexes, being women who have a higher poverty level, 26.5% versus 25.2% of men. In poverty conditions, the total unemployment nearly triple (11.5%) compared to the nonpoor (4.7%), a situation that is worse in urban areas, more severely affecting poor women than men (24.2% versus 15.4%). |
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