Abstract (may include machine translation)
Relying primarily on survey data from six East European countries, this paper seeks to answer two questions: 1) Are women over-represented among the poor population in Eastem Europe and if so, where? 2) What possible factors might explain the differences in the gender poverty gap across the countries under study? I find that three of the six countries exhibit significant gender differences in poverty: Russia, Romania and Bulgaria, and hypothesize that the speed of the economic transformations, as well as the resulting development of the welfare State will best explain the cross-country differences.
Translated title of the contribution | The Feminization of Poverty in Six Post-State Socialist Societies |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 96-113 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Szociológiai Szemle |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - 2001 |