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Abstract
As the world slides deeper into recession, ‘child poverty’ rates will undoubtedly increase with rising unemployment, household debt and marriage breakdown. This comparative paper focuses on the gendered aspects of child poverty, showing that Canada has higher rates of maternal employment than some other liberal welfare states but also higher poverty rates for mother-led families, a larger gender gap in pay, and lower levels of social spending on families. The paper argues that the lack of gender analysis in political discourse tends to downplay the well-known association between poverty and female-led households, which requires greater acknowledgement as the recession worsens.
Résumé
Dans un contexte de récession qui s’aggrave de jour en jour dans le monde, il ne fait pas de doute que le niveau de pauvreté infantile augmentera en fonction de la croissance du chômage, de l’endettement des ménages et des séparations. Cette étude comparative met l’accent sur l’influence du genre sur la pauvreté et révèle que le Canada compte un niveau d’emploi maternel plus élevé que quelques autres États providences libéraux. Cependant, il possède aussi un taux plus élevé de pauvreté dans les familles dirigées par les mères, ainsi qu’un écart plus important au plan de la rémunération et un niveau moindre de dépenses relatives aux activités sociales de la famille. Selon cette étude, l’absence d’analyse du genre dans le discours politique tend à minimiser la corrélation notoire entre pauvreté et ménages dirigés par des femmes, un concept qui mérite davantage de reconnaissance en cette période de récession qui s’intensifie.
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