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

The emergence of development and poverty-oriented women's organizations in the Third World is one of the more hopeful outcomes of the UN Decade for Women. This books tells the story of five such organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It looks at their successes and failures, their problems and constraints, and their prospects for the future.

Hopeful Openings: A Study of Five Women's Development Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean (Kumarian Press Case Studies Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Kumarian Press

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