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| Name | New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understand |
| Description | Chant, S. 2003. New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. Women and Development Unit. Mujer y desarrollo N° 47. United Nations.This paper aims to outline major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. It covers three key aspects: * ways in which poverty analysis has been progressively 'engendered' during three decades of feminist research * barriers to understanding poverty from a gender perspective, such as forms of gender exclusion in mainstream analyses and inadequacies in data on gender and poverty * thoughts on future directions in research and policyThe author suggests that the emerging debates have drawn attention to the problems of generalising about women's poverty, and of engaging in superficial dualistic comparisons between male- and female-headed households. In addition, these approaches broaden the prospects for change through tackling gender inequalities in a number of arenas. This would signify interventions which strive to redress gender inequalities in different 'spaces', such as the labour market, legal institutions, the home as well as within different aspects and processes of poverty and inequality. |
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