The Role of Women in a Family Economy. A Bibliometric Analysis in Contexts of Poverty

Víctor Meseguer-Sánchez, Gabriel López-Martínez, Valentín Molina-Moreno and Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña
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Víctor Meseguer-Sánchez: International Chair of Social Responsibility, Catholic University of Murcia, 30107 Murcia, Spain
Gabriel López-Martínez: Department of Contemporary Humanities, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Valentín Molina-Moreno: Department of Management-1, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Luis Jesús Belmonte-Ureña: Department of Economics and Business, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-23

Abstract: The concept of family economy in the context of extreme poverty is of interest when it comes to analyzing the strategies displayed to prevent or reduce the effects of this situation of exclusion. Gender roles in the nucleus of the family institution will indicate the distribution of these tasks, so that we can understand, in the case of the role of women, the specific weight of their actions in this scenario. For this work, an investigation of our object of study was carried out for the period 1968–2019. A bibliometric analysis of 2182 articles was carried out in which the final versions of articles, books, and book chapters whose subject matter was related to the categories of family economy and poverty were included. The most productive journal was the Journal of Development Economics, while World Economies was the most cited. The authors with the most articles were Ravaillon, Sadoulet, and Lanjouw. The most productive institution was the World Bank. The country with the most publications and citations was the United States. Future research should focus on analyzing the role of women within the family economy in the context of poverty. Thus, a line of research is proposed that also includes the proposals from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which means an urgent call for action by all countries.

Keywords: family economy; household; poverty; sustainable development; female; gender transformative approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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