Vulnerabilities Amoung Poor Women and Children - 1260 Words

I wish to discuss about women and children being the most endangered amongst the poor. In the essay, I will analyze their problems, examine their susceptibility to poverty and discuss on how to eradicate or reduce to the barest women these issues. Women and children are the most susceptible class amidst the poverty stricken because of the following reasons - they do not have opportunities to access essential social services such as education and health, lower or no recruitment chances, no access to loan facilities and they are usually excluded from society, war and natural calamities such as the Rwandan genocide, floods, and earthqu akes amongst other examples . UNIFEM: 2000 recognized ‘that the disparity amongst men and women entangled in the wheel of impoverishment has continuously increased in the past decade, a prodigy generally referred to as the ‘feminization of poverty’. The specific problems faced by poor women are lack of resources as a consequence of their earning less salary than men even if they possess the same eligibity and work for the same total number of hours, they are restricted to jobs that pays meager salaries such as cooks, cleaners, nannies, secretaries etc, they spend extra hours providing voluntary care giving than men especially in the African culture where it is imposed on the woman that if any family member is indisposed, it is her responsibility to cater for that person, they carry the major responsibility of bringing up children child