UNIFEM – Reducing Women’s Poverty and Exclusion
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 22, 2006
Since poverty traps women in multiple layers of discrimination and hinders
their ability to claim their rights, ending feminized poverty has always been a
core UNIFEM priority. Not only do women bear a disproportionate burden of the
world’s poverty, but in some cases, globalization has widened the gap, with
women losing more than their share of jobs, benefits and labour rights. >From
tax systems to trade regimes, however, economic policies and institutions still
mostly fail to take gender disparities into account. With too few seats at the
tables where economic decisions are made, women themselves have little chance of
rectifying the deepening of existing inequalities. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
One of three priority areas of the IPC is to strengthen efforts in developing
countries to improve their capacity to benchmark and monitor poverty and
inequality.
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