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The Feminization of Poverty  

Barbara Ehrenreich and Frances Fox Piven ▪ Spring 1984

Despite the widespread misperception that women are achieving economic equality, their economic status has deteriorated sharply since the late 1960s. Today women—and children—are the primary beneficiaries of social welfare programs for the poor. Between the mid-’60s and mid-’70s, the number …



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