Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the
poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest
information on women living at or below the poverty level and the
changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise
above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research
methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale
surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores
different aspects of women's poverty since the passage of the 1986
welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political
scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage,
divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules,
disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income
support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance.
Women, Work, and Poverty illuminates the changes in the causes of
women's poverty following welfare reform in the United States,
using up-to-date research that's both qualitative and quantitative.
Taking racial and ethnic diversity into account, the book's
contributors examine new findings on the feminization of poverty,
the role of children and the lack of child care as an obstacle to
employment, labor market policies that can reduce poverty and
improve gender wage equality, sex and race segregation in the labor
market, and the low quality of jobs available to low income women.
Women, Work, and Poverty examines: marriage, motherhood, and work
pay equity and living wage reforms community resources welfare
status and child care acquiring higher education advancing women of
color income security repaying debt after divorce gender
differences in spendable income women's job loss Women, Work, and
Poverty is an invaluable aid for academics working in social work,
social policy, women's studies, economics, sociology, and political
science, and for policy researchers, anti-poverty activists, and
women's leaders.
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