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Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy (Paperback)
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Gender & Social Protection Strategies in the Informal Economy (Paperback)
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The vast majority of the world's working women, particularly those
from low-income households in developing countries, are located in
the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid,
irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and
protective legislation. This book examines the constraints and
barriers which continue to confine women to these forms of work and
what this implies for their ability to provide for themselves and
their families and to cope with insecurity. It develops a framework
of analysis that integrates gender, life course and livelihoods
perspectives in order to explore the interactions between gender
inequality, household poverty and labour market forces that help to
produce gender-differentiated experiences of risk and vulnerability
for the working poor. Drawing on practical experiences from the
field, It uses this framework to demonstrate the relevance of a
gender-analytical approach to the design and evaluation of a range
of social protection measures that are relevant to women at
different stages of their life course. These include conditional
and unconditional social transfers to reduce child labour and
promote children's education, child care support for working women,
financial services for the poor, employment generation through
public works and different measures for old age security. The book
stresses the importance of an organised voice for working women if
they are to ensure that employers, trade unions and governments
respond to their need for socio-economic security. Finally, the
book synthesises the main lessons that emerge from the discussion
and the linkages between social protection strategies and the
broader macro-economic framework. A book that will be of interest
to a wide range of readers-those in the fields of economics,
sociology and gender studies, as also activists and policy-makers.
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