Gender and the experience of poverty in Eastern Europe and Russia after 1989

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A 24-year–old Roma woman is living with her husband, his grandmother and their four children in a small village in northern Hungary and the family does not have enough food for regular meals…. An elderly woman in Bucharest is shivering in a cold apartment because her pension does not cover the heating bill… A divorced mother of two in a rural town in Russia works a full time job as an elementary school teacher but does not make enough to be able to buy medication for her son… A young Polish woman on maternity leave with her first child, married to an unemployed assembly line worker, lives in the home of an ailing elderly aunt who she takes care of in exchange for the use of her apartment…. Young women from all over Eastern Europe line up along the major truck routes to Germany send money back home to feed their families. These are the faces of poverty we see around us
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-382
Number of pages14
JournalCommunist and Post-Communist Studies
Volume35
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2002
Externally publishedYes

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