Female household headship and the feminisation of poverty : facts, fictions and forward strategies

By S. Chant. 2003

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1. S. Bradshaw
2. S. Chant
3. Maia Green
4. M. Medeiros
5. D. Hulme
6. Joana Costa
7. C. D. Deere
8. A. Krishna

Citations in the corpus

• From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective (2005, background): “Recent work by Chant (2003) reveals the error of conceptualizing gender relations as being standardized within and between societies.”
• From Structural Adjustment to Social Adjustment (2008, background): “Existing research from Mexico might call into question this conclusion (Chant, 2003b), as would recent research from Nicaragua (Bradshaw, 2002b).”
• Re‐thinking the “Feminization of Poverty” in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices (2006, background): “…to ‘‘secondary’’ poverty among women and children in male-headed households, and, as such, how for many women the capacity to command and allocate resources may be more important than the actual resource base in their households (Chant, 2003; Kabeer, 1996; González de la Rocha and Grinspun, 2001).”
• Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Latin America (2008, background): “appears to have a stronger correlation with the presence of children in the family and other characteristics of family members than with the sex of the household head (Baden & Milward, 1997; Chant, 2003; Lipton & Ravallion, 1995; Moghadam, 1997).”
• Dangerous Equations? How Female‐headed Households Became the Poorest of the Poor: Causes, Consequences and Cautions (2004, methodology): “In broader work on poverty, and especially in policy circles, the poverty of female-headed households has effectively become a proxy for women’s poverty, if not poverty in general, a set of “dangerous equations” which have been increasingly challenged (Chant 1997, 2003; Jackson 1996; Kabeer 1996).”