caa a22 4500 386395268 CHVBK 20180307112136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S004727940001761X doi S004727940001761X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S004727940001761X Gender and Poverty [Elektronische Daten] A recent edition of this Journal (Volume 16, Part 2, April 1987) was devoted to a number of articles on the definition and measurement of poverty. Surprisingly, perhaps, this did not include any specific discussion of gender differences in the causes, extent and experience of poverty. But such gender differences do exist, though they are often obscured by much research on poverty. Our initial response to the special edition on poverty was to write a reply discussing how the various contributors had ignored the issue of gender. But women cannot simply be ‘added in' to existing analyses; instead a different analytic framework is required. This article therefore begins by looking at some of the widespread evidence of the economic disadvantage of women compared with men. We then go on to discuss why it is necessary to focus on the gender dimensions of poverty. We argue that this involves far more than simply disaggregating data to produce statistics about the situation of women. Rather, this focus leads us to explore the structural causes of women's poverty and the gendered processes in the labour market, welfare systems and domestic household which interact to create and maintain that disadvantage. In the final section we consider some of the important conceptual and methodological issues which must be tackled if we are to find ways to investigate and measure poverty which are not gender-blind. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Millar Jane Glendinning Caroline Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-07), 363-381 0047-2794 18:3<363 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727940001761X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727940001761X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Millar Jane NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Glendinning Caroline NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-07), 363-381 0047-2794 18:3<363 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge