Strengthening Income Security Among Time-poor Women: The Role Of Gender-responsive Social Protection Systems
- Author: United Nations Women
- Main Title: World Survey on the Role of Women in Development 2019 , pp 52-76
- Publication Date: June 2021
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/9789210049351c005
- Language: English
As noted in Chapter 2, the risk of being income-poor coincides with a period in women’s life course when they are caring for young children and experiencing a constraint on the time that they have available for paid work, creating a cycle of income poverty and time poverty. Income-pooling within the household through intrahousehold transfers is an important mechanism through which non-earners can be protected from poverty. However, in many low-income contexts, a single, often low, income is insufficient to pull the entire household out of poverty. Even when women with young children in low-income settings shoulder a heavy burden of unpaid care and domestic work, the compulsion to earn an income to meet basic needs pushes them into whatever form of paid work they can find. The pressure to engage in paid work is particularly acute when there are no other earners in the household with whom women can pool their income, which is evident in the heightened risk of poverty of lone-mother households.
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