New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective

The overall aim of this paper is to outline the major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The paper is divided into three main sections. Section one reviews the ways in which the frontiers of poverty analysis have been pushed forward and progr...

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Autor principal:	Chant, Sylvia
Formato:	Texto
Idioma:	English
Publicado:	ECLAC 2003-08
Materias:	INCORPORACION DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GENERO MEDICION POBREZA GENDER MAINSTREAMING MEASUREMENT POVERTY
Acceso en línea:	http://hdl.handle.net/11362/5910

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spelling	Chant, Sylvia NU. CEPAL. Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo 2014-01-02T16:17:20Z 2014-01-02T16:17:20Z 2003-08 9211214157 http://hdl.handle.net/11362/5910 LC/L.1955-P Includes bibliography The overall aim of this paper is to outline the major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The paper is divided into three main sections. Section one reviews the ways in which the frontiers of poverty analysis have been pushed forward and progressively 'engendered' during three decades of dedicated feminist research and activism in Latin America and other parts of the South. This includes discussion of past deficiencies and cumulative improvements in data on Women's poverty, of the ways in which burgeoning research on gender has contributed to evolving conceptual approaches to poverty, and of key factors signalled as leading to gender-differentiated burdens of poverty. In section two, the discussion turns to outstanding barriers to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The principal challenges identified include varying forms of gender exclusion in mainstream analytical and methodological approaches, continued inadequacies in data on gender and poverty, and the ways in which advocacy for directing resources to women has given rise to certain stereotypes which narrow the optic through which poverty is conceptualised and addressed. The third and final section offers thoughts on future directions in research and policy. How might gender and poverty investigation move forward in the 21st century so as to sharpen our instruments for measurement, and to better inform and influence policy interventions? In turn, to which areas might policy be most usefully directed? While Latin America is the main focus of analysis throughout the paper, given the global reach of discourses on gender and poverty, insights are also drawn from academic and policy discussions outside the region. 64 páginas. en ECLAC Serie Mujer y Desarrollo 47 New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective Texto Documento Completo División de Asuntos de Género Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo Disponible Santiago 64 p. : tabls. S038523 E 03.II.G.110 INT UN/SO 25(47/2003) LC/L.1955-P Santiago INCORPORACION DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GENERO MEDICION POBREZA GENDER MAINSTREAMING MEASUREMENT POVERTY AMERICA LATINA LATIN AMERICA Series POBREZA POVERTY 13156 ASUNTOS DE GÉNERO DESARROLLO SOCIAL GENDER AFFAIRS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT tablas
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title	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
spellingShingle	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective Chant, Sylvia INCORPORACION DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GENERO MEDICION POBREZA GENDER MAINSTREAMING MEASUREMENT POVERTY
title_short	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
title_full	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
title_fullStr	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
title_full_unstemmed	New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
title_sort	new contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective
author	Chant, Sylvia
author_facet	Chant, Sylvia
topic	INCORPORACION DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GENERO MEDICION POBREZA GENDER MAINSTREAMING MEASUREMENT POVERTY
topic_facet	INCORPORACION DE LA PERSPECTIVA DE GENERO MEDICION POBREZA GENDER MAINSTREAMING MEASUREMENT POVERTY
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description	The overall aim of this paper is to outline the major methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The paper is divided into three main sections. Section one reviews the ways in which the frontiers of poverty analysis have been pushed forward and progressively 'engendered' during three decades of dedicated feminist research and activism in Latin America and other parts of the South. This includes discussion of past deficiencies and cumulative improvements in data on Women's poverty, of the ways in which burgeoning research on gender has contributed to evolving conceptual approaches to poverty, and of key factors signalled as leading to gender-differentiated burdens of poverty. In section two, the discussion turns to outstanding barriers to understanding poverty from a gender perspective. The principal challenges identified include varying forms of gender exclusion in mainstream analytical and methodological approaches, continued inadequacies in data on gender and poverty, and the ways in which advocacy for directing resources to women has given rise to certain stereotypes which narrow the optic through which poverty is conceptualised and addressed. The third and final section offers thoughts on future directions in research and policy. How might gender and poverty investigation move forward in the 21st century so as to sharpen our instruments for measurement, and to better inform and influence policy interventions? In turn, to which areas might policy be most usefully directed? While Latin America is the main focus of analysis throughout the paper, given the global reach of discourses on gender and poverty, insights are also drawn from academic and policy discussions outside the region.
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New contributions to the analysis of poverty: methodological and conceptual challenges to understanding poverty from a gender perspective

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