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Author : Robyn Stone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty and Older Women written by Robyn Stone and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robyn Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty Among the Elderly written by Robyn Stone and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199718202
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Poor Women in Rich Countries written by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women and immigrants--in eight wealthy but diverse countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In a rich analysis of labor market and social welfare sectors, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and a team of outstanding international contributors conclude that both living-wage employment and government provision of adequate benefits and services are necessary if lone women are to achieve a socially acceptable living standard. Taken together, the chapters extend a feminist critique of welfare state theories and chart nations' disparate progress against poverty -- probing, for instance, how Sweden emerged a leader in the prevention of women's poverty while the United States continues to lag. By identifying the social and economic policies that enable women to live independently, Poor Women in Rich Countries provides nothing less than a blueprint for abolishing women's poverty.
Author : Amanda Smith Barusch
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Older Women in Poverty written by Amanda Smith Barusch and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All women, regardless of race, face a greater risk of poverty in their later years than elderly men, chiefly as a result of social biases and the failure of public policy. In this volume, the author presents her findings from an extensive study of low-income older women from around the country and features the detailed life stories of seven selected women. In examining central aspects of the respondents' private lives, the author describes the impact of poverty on self-concept, daily coping strategies, marriage, and caregiving." "This text offers recommendations for policy changes that are desperately needed to prevent and to ameliorate poverty among older women and examines the role of older women in social reform. Academics, students, policymakers, researchers, and professionals in sociology and social gerontology will find this volume a valuable resource."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Anja Villinger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638474860
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Feminization of Poverty? Living Conditions of Women in the United States written by Anja Villinger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Technical University of Chemnitz, language: English, abstract: Introduction No novelty in the United States struck me more vividly during my stay there than the equality of conditions. (Alexis de Tocqueville) With this statement, the European aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville, who came to the U.S. in 1831, took up one of America’s well-known founding myths: that of equality. The view of America as the land of unlimited opportunities and equal chances, where everybody can try his luck and pursue his own happiness, is still widespread today – inside as well as outside of America. The paradox with this myth is that today, the USA is the Western nation with the greatest percentage of the world’s rich and with the widest gap between rich and poor. A closer look into the statistics reveals that certain groups and minorities seem to be more disadvantaged than others since they are stronger represented among the poor. This fact seriously calls into question the image of America as the country of equal living conditions. Nevertheless, most Americans strongly trust in their equal opportunities for economic advancement: 72% believe in their own chance to raise their living standard – a share that is disproportionately higher than in other countries. In Germany, for example, only 41% of the interviewees estimate their opportunities in such an optimistic way (cf. Rode 1992: 192). This picture of the United States is also often predominant in the minds of adult learners of English as a foreign language. My intention with this paper is to show them the “other America”, that one far away from the rags-to-riches stories told in numerous Hollywood films. The other America shows high and persistent poverty rates for certain population groups and minorities. During my preliminary reading, I repeatedly came across the term Feminization of Poverty. I wondered what this term exactly embraces, how this phenomenon can emerge in one of the richest industrialized Western nations and why the U.S. government is not able– or not willing - to counter effectively to that phenomenon. As, in my opinion, the issue of the Feminization of Poverty in the United States needs further explanation to understand its complex nature and with it, some particularities of the American society, I decided to dedicate my thesis to poor women and their living conditions in the United States.
Author : Diana Pearce
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Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty written by Diana Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Nordquist
Publisher : Reference & Research Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty written by Joan Nordquist and published by Reference & Research Services. This book was released on 1987 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Lieutenant Governor's Task Force on the Feminization of Poverty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty written by California. Lieutenant Governor's Task Force on the Feminization of Poverty and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Dianne Garner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women as They Age written by J. Dianne Garner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus is on the crucial economic, social, and health issues facing older women today: widowhood, longevity, feminization of poverty, employment discrimination, inadequate social programs, and chronic health problems. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author : Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313390266
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty written by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-11-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and carefully organized collection provides an overview of the relationship between gender and economic stratification in seven industrialized countries. Everywhere, as a Polish commentator notes, `men have too much power, and women too much work.' Nevertheless, 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 explain the extreme feminization of poverty in the United States. Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York 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, University of Pennsylvania This study asks whether the feminization of poverty, the tendency of women and their families to become the majority of the poor, is unique to the United States, where the phenomenon was first discovered. Seven industrialized nations, both capitalist and socialist, with different degrees of commitment to social welfare are compared: Canada, Japan, France, Sweden, Poland, the Soviet Union, and the United States. In each of the countries the authors analyze information about women, labor market conditions, equalization policies, social welfare programs, and demographic variables such as the rates of divorce and single parenthood. According to Goldberg and Kremen, it is possible to predict the feminization of poverty when three conditions are present: (1) insufficient efforts to reduce work place and wage inequities for women; (2) the absence or ineffectiveness of social welfare programs which can redress the cost, both economic and personal, of the dual role that women have assumed in industrialized societies; and (3) the presence of increasing rates of divorce and single motherhood. An array of labor market and social welfare programs in use in the six other industrialized nations are then reviewed by the authors for possible adaptation in the United States. This important work will be a valuable resource for scholars across the academic and professional disciplines of political science, sociology, economics, social work, and women's studies.
Author : Robyn Stone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty and Older Women written by Robyn Stone and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Welfare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty Testimony written by California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valentine M. Moghadam
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Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (373 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty? written by Valentine M. Moghadam and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet Saltzman Chafetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387362185
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Sociology of Gender written by Janet Saltzman Chafetz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social processes are gendered, as are micro, meso, and macro social structures. Gender shapes, and is shaped, in all arenas of social life, from the most mundane practices of everyday life to those of the most powerful corporate actors. Contemporary understandings of gender emanate from a large community of primarily feminist scholars that spans the gamut of learned disciplines and also includes non-academic activist thinkers. However, while in corporating some cross-disciplinary material, this volume focuses specifically on socio logical theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed across the full array of social processes, structures, and institutions. As editor, I have explicitly tried to shape the contributions to this volume along several lines that reflect my long-standing views about sociology in general, and gender sociology in particular. First, I asked authors to include cross-national and historical material as much as possible. This request reflects my belief that understanding and evaluating the here-and-now and working realistically for a better future can only be accomplished from a comparative perspective. Too often, American sociology has been both tempero- and ethnocentric. Second, I have asked authors to be sensitive to within-gender differences along class, racial/ethnic, sexual preference, and age cohort lines.
Author : Rochelle Lefkowitz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book For Crying Out Loud written by Rochelle Lefkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hilda Scott
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Working Your Way to the Bottom written by Hilda Scott and published by London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1984 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is increasing throughout the world. Increasing numbers of the world's poor are women. For the 19902, when (according to the International Labor Organization in Geneva) 90% of the unpaid labor of the world is done by women, Hilda Scott produces startling evidence to show that the position of women is deteriorating and will continue to do so. She looks at the facts on job segregation, pay and conditions, and assesses the effects of technology, showing how women the world over are literally working their way into poverty. She proposes a way of looking at women's poverty that will give us a new approach to poverty in general. -- Back cover.
Author : California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Human Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Hearing on the Feminization of Poverty, April 8, 1983, Board of Supervisors Chambers, San Francisco, California written by California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
