Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: The PROGRESA/Oportunidades Programme in Mexico

Maxine Molyneux

Chapter 2 in Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, 2006, pp 43-67 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In Latin America as elsewhere in the world, gender bias and masculine prerogative have prevailed in social policy as in social life more broadly, with entitlements resting on culturally sanctioned and deeply rooted notions of gender difference and patriarchal authority. These have generally accorded with idealized assumptions about the asymmetric social positions occupied by the sexes with male breadwinners and female mother-dependents receiving benefits according to these normative social roles. Such assumptions have proved remarkably universal and enduring even where, as in Latin America, gender divisions have been modified by women’s mass entry into the labour force and by equal rights legislation.

Keywords: Social Policy; Poverty Relief; Social Sector; Latin American Study; Latin American Region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625280_2

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