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

Wgst 1f90- poverty: a gendered and raced phenomenon. A feminist approach to poverty: a feminist approach to poverty focuses on the gender implications and social costs of poverty. 2: according to unifem: women are more likely than men to be poor and at risk of hunger because of the systematic discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. 2. poverty implications are widespread: basic rights such as access to clean drinking water, sanitation, medical care and decent employment are corded. Africa and south asia: global economic changes are vvvtaking 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 region. Oxfam video: note the positive impact that women"s land ownership could have on: women; communities, and the world (be specific! 3: what do women produce, earn, and own? (statistically speaking). own 1% earn 10% world wide.