The working lives of most women worldwide, face obstacles to increasing their economic power: no "slack" time to invest in additional work that could bring in needed income; lack of access to commercial credit; and training in traditionally female- and mostly low-wage- skills. These obstacles differentiate the work experiences of men and women, exacerbate women's poverty, and sustain a vicious cycle of impoverishment from one generation to the next. They also help to account for a disturbing global trend: the feminization of poverty. When the yardstick used to measure the degree of people's poverty is their level of well-being, women are traditionally found to be more impoverished than men. But poverty is more commonly defined according to income, and today, although the gap between the two sexes is decreasing in terms of well being, it is increasing in terms of income.

Women Poverty and Progress in the Third World (Headline Series)

Buvinic, Mayra

Yudelman, Sally W.

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Foreign Policy Assn

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