Gender and Poverty Flashcards
1
Q
Global Citizen (2014)
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Women make up half of the worlds population and represent 70% of the worlds poor.
2
Q
Department of Work and Pensions (2009)
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- 52% of children living in lone-parent families are poor.
* 90% of lone-parent families are matrifocal.
3
Q
Trussell Trust (2014)
A
Food poverty affects women and men differently with many women going hungry to feed their children.
4
Q
CHANT
“Time Poverty”
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Women are prone to experience this as a result of the multiple areas of work they are engaged with, many are unpaid/defined which makes it hard for them to get out of poverty.
