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The Face of Poverty: A measurement of gender inequality and within-group difference of female poverty in rural China

Lu, Yanting LU (2019) SIMV32 20191
Graduate School
Master of Science in Development Studies
Abstract
Although rural female poverty is vital component of the China’s poverty,
it doesn’t receive enough attentions from government and scholar. In order to draw
a better interpretation of rural female poverty and gender inequality that allowing
more targeted poverty reduction policies and actions, this thesis examines the
gender inequality and within-group differences in female poverty from a wide range
of poverty, including income poverty, capability deprivation of health, mental
health, education, social relation, political participation, paid work and inequality
of domestic work. The result shows that there is a significant gender inequality in
income, education, political participation, paid work and domestic work. In... (More)
Although rural female poverty is vital component of the China’s poverty,
it doesn’t receive enough attentions from government and scholar. In order to draw
a better interpretation of rural female poverty and gender inequality that allowing
more targeted poverty reduction policies and actions, this thesis examines the
gender inequality and within-group differences in female poverty from a wide range
of poverty, including income poverty, capability deprivation of health, mental
health, education, social relation, political participation, paid work and inequality
of domestic work. The result shows that there is a significant gender inequality in
income, education, political participation, paid work and domestic work. In addition,
among all the rural female, those who identified as ethnic minority, older than 65
years old and employed in agricultural sector are most like to suffer various
dimensions of poverty. (Less)
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author
Lu, Yanting LU
supervisor
organization
course
SIMV32 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
China, rural poverty, gender inequality
language
English
id
8982648
date added to LUP
2019-11-21 13:48:07
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2019-11-21 13:48:07
@misc{8982648,
  abstract     = {{Although rural female poverty is vital component of the China’s poverty, 
it doesn’t receive enough attentions from government and scholar. In order to draw 
a better interpretation of rural female poverty and gender inequality that allowing 
more targeted poverty reduction policies and actions, this thesis examines the 
gender inequality and within-group differences in female poverty from a wide range 
of poverty, including income poverty, capability deprivation of health, mental 
health, education, social relation, political participation, paid work and inequality 
of domestic work. The result shows that there is a significant gender inequality in 
income, education, political participation, paid work and domestic work. In addition, 
among all the rural female, those who identified as ethnic minority, older than 65 
years old and employed in agricultural sector are most like to suffer various 
dimensions of poverty.}},
  author       = {{Lu, Yanting}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Face of Poverty: A measurement of gender inequality and within-group difference of female poverty in rural China}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}