Gender, households and poverty: tracking mediations of macro adjustment programmes
- 2006
- p.1989-998.
- 20 May
A critical review of selected literature emerging from African, Latin American, Caribbean and Asian countries that have adopted structural adjustment programmes throws light on the multidimensionality of effects at the household level and cumulative gender implications. Major areas of concern revolve around examination household survival strategies as ways of coping with these impacts at the household level. This paper attempts to capture significant areas of concern that emerge from the literature around (a) women's work, poverty and structural adjustment; (b) household survival strategies; and (c) growing orthodoxy and the extant critique around gender, poverty, household headship and household survival strategies. The paper pulls together our understanding of gender and gender relations that the research seems to be cumulatively indicating. - Reproduced.