Women's Work, Mother's Poverty: Are Men's Wages the Best Cure for Women's Economic Insecurity?

In: New politics: a journal of socialist thought, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 14-23

Abstract

The article explores gender inequalities as related to the poverty of women and economic compensation issues. Through examining the 2008 Democratic Party platform, statistical and demographic information and data, the author presents the disparity facing American women today. The author analyzes the earnings among ethnic, gender, and education factors with relation to mean incomes. The article then studies factors affecting women's poverty, the income gap and percentages effected, from which the author then discusses federal policies and women's impoverishment, employment and wages. The author concludes the article examining both poverty and policy into relating these gender-based discrimination and unfairness issues, including opinions on welfare, marriage and single motherhood. Adapted from the source document.