Women, Children, and Poverty: Public Policies and Female-Headed Families in Industrialized Countries.

Kamerman, Sheila B.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Women, Children, and Poverty: Public Policies and Female-Headed Families in Industrialized Countries.

Kamerman, Sheila B.

Signs, v10 n2 p249-71 Win 1984

Describes the "feminization of poverty" in industrialized nations and public policy created to solve it. Reports on a cross-national study of public income transfer policies in eight advanced industrialized countries. Contends that policy strategies can be devised to raise the incomes of mother-only families in the United States. (KH)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations, Fatherless Family, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Poverty, Public Policy, Sex Discrimination, Welfare Services

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United States

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