Volume 161, 19 December 2014, Pages 156–162
Social Exclusion and Gender-Based Violence
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Women's Burdens: Exploratory Analysis on Matrifocality, (re)Production and Social Protection in Douro Region, Portugal ☆
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Abstract
Drawing
from the concepts of matrifocality, kinship and gender inequality, this
paper develops a brief discussion around the overloading of duties
faced by socially and economically vulnerable women. The accumulation of
such duties burdens women with social and parental responsibilities,
reinforcing their role as income providers, household custodians and
primary caretakers of dependent children and elders. These duties, often
culturally and socially informed, are especially overwhelming for women
belonging to less affluent social strata. Manifestly exploratory, the
analysis is based on three case studies of women, all of them in their
fifties, living in the Douro vineyards region. They all assume the
headship of their households and benefit or were beneficiaries of the
Social Insertion Income (SII), a state social protection device intended
to alleviate economic hardships and promote active labor insertion.
Keywords
- Conditional Cash Transfers;
- Matrifocality;
- Gender;
- Poverty;
- Unemployment.
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