PEDIATRICS Vol. 77 No. 3 March 1986, pp. A88
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Student
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Student,
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Facebook   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

THE FEMINIZATION OF POVERTY

Student

Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Director-General of the World Health Organization [said] in many cultures women were the underprivileged: girls often received less food than boys, a pattern passed on by mothers who gave themselves less food than their husbands; girls often received less in the way of formal education than boys, since they were needed by mothers to help in the collection of water, preparation of food, and house and horticultural work—school learning being anyway irrelevant to becoming in turn a mother. Unemployment among women around the world was far higher than among men. Dr. Mahler summarized the position as "the feminization of poverty," by legislation, constitution, and ideology.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Facebook Facebook   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?