The Feminization of Poverty

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The authors show convincingly that the feminization of poverty, although most advanced in America, is an international trend. By examining the same set of factors in seven countries, they unravel the reasons why. Their special contribution is the integration of developments in each country's labor market with gender, social policy, and inequality. Lucid, careful, and systematic, the book builds a compelling explanation for the needless impoverishment experienced by millions of American women and offers a sensible, realistic agenda for its reduction. Michael B. Katz Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of History Director, Urban Studies Program University of Pennsylvania ." . . comprehensive and carefully organized . . . these studies reveal large differences in the circumstances of women in different countries, and help to illuminate the several developments in the labor market, the family and public policy which explains the extreme 'feminization of poverty' in the United States." Frances Fox Piven Graduate School, City University of New York