Is There a Feminization of Poverty in Latin America

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Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis (2013, background): “Using longitudinal data Medeiros and Costa (2008) conclude that feminisation of poverty has not occurred in the eight Latin American countries they studied.”
Cities through a “gender lens”: a golden “urban age” for women in the global South? (2013, background): “See Chant (1997); also Chant (2007a); and Medeiros and Costa (2008).”
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, methodology): “This has led to a heated debate on whether female-headed households are poorer and whether there is a tendency toward the feminization of poverty (Jackson 1996; Buvinić and Gupta 1997; Quisumbing, Haddad, and Peña 2001; Medeiros and Costa 2008).”