Poverty

Question 1

Feminization of poverty

Answer 1

Structural/systematic reasons that women are over represented amongst the poor

Direct result of societal barriers

Question 2

Feminist approaches to FOP

Answer 2

1. Focus on the gender implications and social costs of poverty
2. Growing involvement of women and children in the informal economy
3. Inequality in paid labour
4. Differential treatment of girls and boys in households
5. Pressure to get girls married off quickly
6. Higher school drop-out rates for girls
7. Less contro over fertility

Question 3

LICO

Answer 3

The low income cut-offs used by Stats Canada to establish estimating low income cut-offs

An income threshold below which a family will liely devote a larger share of its income on the necessities of food, shelter, and clothing than the average family

Question 4

Three contributing factors for the FOP

Answer 4

1. growth of female-headed households

2/ Intrahousing inequalities and bias against women and girls

3. Neoliberal economic policiies, including structural adjustments

Question 5

Three structural factors for the FOP

Answer 5

1. Major factor in the wage gap is the presence of children
2. Sexual division of labour
3. Child rearing and other domestic responsibilities