Challenges and changes in gendered poverty: the feminization, de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty in Latin America

Sarah Bradshaw, Sylvia Chant and Brian Linneker

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Abstract: Despite reductions in poverty generally, recent trends in Latin American countries show processes of both a de-feminization and re-feminization of poverty. The latter has occurred despite feminized anti-poverty programmes, most notably conditional cash transfer (CCTs), which target resources to women. We show that methodological differences in what, how, and who is the focus of measurement, may influence patterns of poverty ‘feminization’. We also suggest that feminized policy interventions might in themselves be playing a role in the re-feminization of poverty, not least because the participation of female-headed households may be limited by default if not design. The somewhat paradoxical interactions between the feminization of household headship, the feminization of poverty, and the feminization of anti-poverty programmes, present interesting challenges for redressing gender gaps in poverty within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Keywords: Latin America; gender; feminization of poverty; conditional cash transfers; female-headed households (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-02
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Published in Feminist Economics, 2, January, 2019, 25(1), pp. 119 - 144. ISSN: 1354-5701

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