The Gender Poverty Gap: What Can We Learn From Other Countries?

Sara McLanahan (), Irwin Garfinkel () and Lynne Casper ()

No 112, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Examines gender differences in poverty in eight industrialized countries: US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Sweden, Italy and the Netherlands. Results suggest that gender differences in human capital factors and family factors, as well as religion, culture, and policy, all play a role in accounting for gender poverty gaps within and across countries.

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Date: 1994-06
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Published in American Sociological Review 59, (Aug. 1994): 594-605.

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