WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Nations Development Fund For Women, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wgst

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Key terms: feminization of poverty, feminist approaches to fop, lico, labour market segregation, three contributing factors for the fop, three structural reasons for the fop, nine groups of women who experience poverty at higher rates. A feminist approach to poverty: a feminist approach to poverty focuses on the gender implications and social costs of poverty. Page : according to unifem: women are more likely than men to be poor and at risk of hunger because of. 2 the systematic discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. Africa and south asia: global economic changes are taking a huge toll on their livelihoods: economic policies and institutions still mostly fail to take gender disparities into account, from tax and budget systems to trade regions. Oxfam video: note the positive impact that women"s land ownership could have on: women; communities, and the world (be specific!). more income, send children to school.