Unequal burden: economic crises, persistent poverty and women's work

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The work Unequal burden: economic crises, persistent poverty and women's work represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Unequal burden: economic crises, persistent poverty and women's work

Contributor

• Feldman, Shelley
• Benería, Lourdes
• Benería, Lourdes
• Feldman, Shelley

Editor

• Benería, Lourdes
• Benería, Lourdes
• Feldman, Shelley
• Feldman, Shelley

Subject

• Households -- Developing countries
• Poor women -- Developing countries
• Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries
• Women -- Employment -- Developing countries

Language

eng

Summary

The debt crisis and global economic changes of the 1980s caused Third World nations to restructure economic policies, community resources, the labor market, and intra-household divisions of labor. These changes swelled the ranks of the unemployed, the poor, and the malnourished. Women, in particular, were affected negatively by processes of structural adjustment because they represent a disproportionate share of the world's poor, are increasingly represented among low-wage workers, and are forced to balance wage work with subsistence and domestic production in meeting household needs. Using country-based studies, this text offers new perspectives on the consequences of economic crisis in terms of changing state practices and household and family organization, patterns of resource allocation, and women's work

Cataloging source

UkLiU

Index

no index present

LC call number

HC59.7

LC item number

.U266 1992

Literary form

non fiction