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Gender and economic inequalities: the vicious circle of unrecognized and unpaid care work, poverty and lack of access to essential services for women
06/11/2021
© Samuel Hauenstein, Action Against Hunger
This article published by IRIS aims to summarize a consolidation report “Documenting the links between gender and economic inequalities” published by Action Against Hunger France, highlighting the links between women’s poverty, women’s unrecognized and unpaid care work and their lack of access to essential services, and how these impact nutrition security and malnutrition.
This report compiles existing data and knowledge of Action Against Hunger on links between gender and economic inequalities extracted from 29 publications, including 10 Link NCA studies.
This report compiles existing data and knowledge of Action Against Hunger on links between gender and economic inequalities extracted from 29 publications, including 10 Link NCA studies.
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