"Poverty has a woman's face." What do you understand by "feminization of poverty"? What role can women empowerment play in poverty reduction?
Introduction
Poverty is a state of inability to meet one's own needs. Women are more prone to poverty due to:
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◎ No income security
Time poverty – gender role:
➤ On average women do 7 hours of household chores compared to male seminarist
This reduces time spent on individual development
➤ Double burden (employment + gender role) leads to drop out rate in working women population
➤ Social dimension:
➤ Childcare/segment in employment opportunities
◎ Maternity Benefit – employer consider it as added burden to employ women
➤ Economic dimension:
➤ Lack ownership over property
➤ Poor entrepreneurship due to low social acceptance
➤ glass ceiling effect & glass cliff effect (low women CEOs)
◎ Educated women => Better health indicators
◎ Reproductive health – Spacing between children and informed reproductive right
=> More opportunity in employment => Unique agility => Breaking patriarchy
◎ Adoption of policies easily – empowered women worked decisions by IEC campaign/voter output
◎ Population control measure success fully among empowered women
◎ Economic well being – entrepreneurship and innovation
◎ Faguini Nagar – "Nyataa" on line store providing employment to many
◎ Political representation: ◎ Kudumbashree
=> Working with local self government => Better socio-economic performance
Empowered women => [Better Human development] => [Better skill development]
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- Well-structured breakdown of poverty dimensions
- Mentions specific statistics (Female literacy 47%)
- Covers multiple aspects: educational, economic, social
- Addresses double burden concept
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Role of Women and Women's Organization, Population and Associated Issues, Poverty and Developmental issues
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Feminization of poverty
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