Women, income and poverty: Gendered access to resources in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Agenda

Volumn 23, Issue 81, 2009, Pages 25-34

  Posel, Dorrit ^a,b   Rogan, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

female headed households; gender; poverty; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866884474     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2009.9676251     Document Type: Article

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