Poverty And Gender Analysis

Introduction:

Large number of working bodies in literature worked on gender poverty, but the relationship between the two have not been properly analyzed. The relation between gender and poverty is quite simple to understand when such terms in literature exist such as women rights, women equality, and women running households, vulnerable or poor women. Such concepts underpin development arguments on the ‘feminism and poverty’ and the references given to women such as poorest of the poor, etc. Gender analysis is not all about whether men are poorer or women it’s basically about how gender differentiates the social processes which are leading them towards the poverty. But critics argue that developmentalists have forgone the real concept of

But critics argue that whether the shadow prices can really convert the value of services and goods into monetary equivalent. The income/consumption method determines the level of well being and ill being; it has also different claims that physical needs are fulfilled through private consumption shortfalls measured on the household. As mostly money is spend on food, so price cannot be fixed accordingly, the poor has to buy the food in the same prices where as non poor do. So this results into the inevitable degree of arbitrariness about where the poverty line should be drawn and how much of the population should be classified as poor. One of the drawbacks is also that the data is not reliable in developing countries especially where poverty is prevailing most. One of the other approaches to study poverty is the contrasting approach which is related to participatory approach (rural participation) in such processes which benefits the facilitator as well as participants. Such approach has been existed quite a long time when Paolo Freire gained greater recognition through Robert chambers work in 1980’s by combing the older methods of research with the new approaches known as Participatory

As far as labor market issues are considered it offers trade liberalization and labor market deregulation. So such conditionality’s are taken in consideration in order to form policies in structural adjustment and other programs which have gender implications. Both informal and formal markets perpetuate poverty and discrimination. Power hierarchies are also central to institutional approach, the failure to analyze the effect between class, gender across different institutional context means the distinctiveness of women’s experience of work is being missed. The second main argument is that labor constraints are one of the major problem for some women and then there are some serious limitations to it which have been conceptualize labor for policy purposes; by ignoring the institutional parameters of work, by de-linking the well being and work, By failing to link gender division at micro with macroeconomic and social