Has Poverty Been Feminized in Black America?

Abstract

women and their dependent children are making up an increasing proportion of the U.S. poor. The phrase has been adopted by women's movement activists of nearly every political persuasion. And, on the broader political landscape, both liberals and leftists have come to speak of the feminization of poverty as the women's issue of the 1980s. Its promoters see the feminization of poverty as the basis for an organizing strategy with the potential to mobilize millions of women and revive the women's

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