Women, Poverty and Gender Equality Authors Grace Prada Universidad Nacional de Heredia Abstract Concentrating on Latin America, this article explores the close relationship between poverty and gender, arguing that the amount of poor men and women is usually dissimilar. Indeed, the author demonstrates that, in general terms, women tend to be much poorer than men. She attributes this fact to three main reasons: Work division; Income; Housework; Access to education. Each of the different sections of this article analyses one of these four elements in depth. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-02 Issue No. 7 (2001): Dones i cinema Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
