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Short Summary
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| Title |
Power and Privileges - on Gender Discrimination
and Poverty and Power and Privileges |
| Author |
Johnsson-Latham, G. |
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February 2004 |
| Publisher |
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden |
| Donor |
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden |
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Short Summary |
How can mainstream approaches to poverty analysis
become more gender-sensitive? These two texts from Sweden's Ministry
for Foreign Affairs highlight the ways in which mainstream approaches
to poverty analysis overlook the unique ways in which women and men
experience poverty. Power imbalances between women and men are identified
as the principle barrier, where existing power structures favour men
and therefore overlook the costs to women of poverty in terms of death,
violence and lack of respect. Some issues highlighted include that
there is unequal resource distribution within families, particularly
poor ones; and there are no 'neutral' poverty reduction strategies,
since where gender is overlooked, existing gender inequality will
be reproduced, invariably leaving women in relative disadvantage.
Recent legislation coming out of Sweden emphasises the need for a
rights-based approach to tackling women's poverty and their right
to equality This main report is accompanied by 'Interim Studies',
which provide a more in-depth analysis of some of the main issues
raised in the report, particularly existing measures of female versus
male poverty and deprivation and how these affect efforts to improve
health and reduce poverty. |
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