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Volume 10, Issue 1
1 January 1991
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Equal Opportunities International
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Review Article| January 01 1991

Feminisation of Poverty in America

Marcia Lee Agee;
Marcia Lee Agee
Assistant Professor and Professor in the Department of Management and Economics, Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota
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Roger W. Walker
Assistant Professor and Professor in the Department of Management and Economics, Hamline University, St Paul, Minnesota
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7093
Print ISSN: 0261-0159
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Equal Opportunities International (1991) 10 (1): 24–31.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb010538

“Being poor is a cardinal sin in our society,” one attorney notes in connection with an observation that women face an uphill battle in terms of the effects of poverty on child custody outcomes. Evidence from the same document quotes a Minnesota referee who is renowned for his usual statement to female AFDC recipients:’ How much of the taxpayers money are you currently receiving? (17,p.25)”.

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