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Gendered trends in poverty in the post-apartheid period, 1997–2006

Dorrit Posel School of Development Studies, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Michael Rogan School of Development Studies, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Pages 97-113 | Published online: 14 Feb 2012

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Dorrit Posel, Katharine Hall & Linekela Goagoses. (2023) Going beyond female-headed households: Household composition and gender differences in poverty. Development Southern Africa 40:5, pages 1117-1134.
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Amy Thornton. (2023) Trends in household formation and living alone in South Africa, 1995–2011. Development Southern Africa 0:0, pages 1-33.
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Kira Erwin & Monique Marks. (2022) The economic lives of migrant women in a South African city: informal work, gender, and transformative possibilities. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 7:4-6, pages 262-282.
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Kehinde O. Omotoso, Jimi Adesina & Ololade G. Adewole. (2022) Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 14:2, pages 564-576.
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Julian Brown. (2021) Staking a claim: law, inequality and the city in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy 48:169, pages 385-402.
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Dorrit Posel & Daniela Casale. (2019) Gender and the economy in post-apartheid South Africa: Changes and challenges. Agenda 33:4, pages 3-10.
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Michael Rogan & Laura Alfers. (2019) Gendered inequalities in the South African informal economy. Agenda 33:4, pages 91-102.
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Michael Rogan & John Reynolds. (2019) Trends in the working poverty rate (WPR) in post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2012. Development Southern Africa 36:5, pages 699-715.
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Dorrit Posel & Michael Rogan. (2019) Inequality, Social Comparisons and Income Aspirations: Evidence from a Highly Unequal Country. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 20:1, pages 94-111.
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Priviledge Cheteni. (2019) Explaining levels of between-group and within-group inequality and poverty in South Africa. Cogent Economics & Finance 7:1.
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Zack Zimbalist. (2017) Analysing post-apartheid poverty trends by geo-type, 1997–2012: The understated role of urbanisation and social grants. Development Southern Africa 34:2, pages 151-167.
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Dorrit Posel, Daniela Casale & Erofili Grapsa. (2016) Re-estimating gender differences in income in South Africa: The implications of equivalence scales. Development Southern Africa 33:4, pages 425-441.
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Dorrit Posel & Michael Rogan. (2016) Measured as Poor versus Feeling Poor: Comparing Money-metric and Subjective Poverty Rates in South Africa. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 17:1, pages 55-73.
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Michael Rogan. (2016) Qualitative perceptions of the meaning of “headship” and female-headed households in post-apartheid South Africa. Social Dynamics 42:1, pages 175-195.
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Phakama Ntshongwana, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes & Michael Noble. (2015) LONE MOTHERHOOD IN SOUTH AFRICA: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND POLICY IMPERATIVES. South African Review of Sociology 46:4, pages 80-99.
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Michael Rogan. (2013) Alternative Definitions of Headship and the ‘Feminisation’ of Income Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The Journal of Development Studies 49:10, pages 1344-1357.
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Justin Visagie & Dorrit Posel. (2013) A reconsideration of what and who is middle class in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 30:2, pages 149-167.
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Leila Patel, Tessa Hochfeld & Jacqueline Moodley. (2013) Gender and child sensitive social protection in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 30:1, pages 69-83.
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David Kudzaishe Garwe & Olawale Fatoki. (2012) The impact of gender on SME characteristics and access to debt finance in South Africa. Development Southern Africa 29:3, pages 448-461.
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Amy Thornton. (2023) Leaving the parental home in post‐apartheid South Africa. Population, Space and Place 29:8.
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Dorrit Posel & Adeola Oyenubi. (2023) Heterogeneous gender gaps in mental wellbeing: Do women with low economic status face the biggest gender gaps?. Social Science & Medicine 332, pages 116133.
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Sizo Mntambo, Pauline Adebayo & Catherine Ndinda. 2021. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems 1 22 .
Sharthi Laldaparsad & Yegnanew A. Shiferaw. (2022) A model-based estimation and mapping of school-age children living in poverty in the local areas of South Africa. Statistical Journal of the IAOS 38:4, pages 1289-1301.
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Talent Zwane, Mduduzi Biyase & September Rooderick. (2022) Assessing the impact of social grants on household welfare using propensity score matching approach. International Journal of Development Issues.
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Margaret Chitiga, Martin Henseler, Ramos Emmanuel Mabugu & Hélène Maisonnave. (2021) How COVID-19 Pandemic Worsens the Economic Situation of Women in South Africa. The European Journal of Development Research 34:3, pages 1627-1644.
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Caitlin Brown & Dominique van de Walle. (2021) Headship and Poverty in Africa. The World Bank Economic Review 35:4, pages 1038-1056.
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Wendy Hunter, Leila Patel & Natasha Borges Sugiyama. (2020) How family and child cash transfers can empower women: Comparative lessons from Brazil and South Africa. Global Social Policy 21:2, pages 258-277.
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Dorrit Posel, Adeola Oyenubi & Umakrishnan Kollamparambil. (2021) Job loss and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from South Africa. PLOS ONE 16:3, pages e0249352.
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Daniela CasaleProfProf & Dorrit PoselProfProf. (2021) Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from a large national survey during South Africa’s lockdown. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 71, pages 100569.
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Dorrit Posel & Janet Bruce-Brand. (2020) ‘Only a Housewife?’ Subjective Well-Being and Homemaking in South Africa. Journal of Happiness Studies 22:1, pages 323-342.
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Talita Greyling & Stephanié Rossouw. (2019) Access to micro- and informal loans: Evaluating the impact on the quality of life of poor females in South Africa. South African Journal of Economic and management Sciences 22:1.
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SOPHIE PLAGERSON, TESSA HOCHFELD & LAUREN STUART. (2018) Social Security and Gender Justice in South Africa: Policy Gaps and Opportunities. Journal of Social Policy 48:2, pages 293-310.
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Lungile Ntsalaze & Sylvanus Ikhide. (2017) The threshold effects of household indebtedness on multidimensional poverty. International Journal of Social Economics 44:11, pages 1471-1488.
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Zack Zimbalist. (2017) Breaking down rural and urban bias and interrogating spatial inequality, evidence from South Africa. Development Policy Review 35, pages O246-O269.
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Annamaria Milazzo & Dominique van de Walle. (2017) Women Left Behind? Poverty and Headship in Africa. Demography 54:3, pages 1119-1145.
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Martin Flatø, Raya Muttarak & André Pelser. (2017) Women, Weather, and Woes: The Triangular Dynamics of Female-Headed Households, Economic Vulnerability, and Climate Variability in South Africa. World Development 90, pages 41-62.
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Gnanam Pillay & Sylvia Kaye. 2017. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship 1010 1036 .
Michael Rogan. (2015) Gender and Multidimensional Poverty in South Africa: Applying the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). Social Indicators Research 126:3, pages 987-1006.
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LEILA PATEL, TRUDIE KNIJN & FRITS VAN WEL. (2015) Child Support Grants in South Africa: A Pathway to Women's Empowerment and Child Well-being?. Journal of Social Policy 44:2, pages 377-397.
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Rochelle Burgess & Catherine Campbell. (2014) Contextualising women's mental distress and coping strategies in the time of AIDS: A rural South African case study. Transcultural Psychiatry 51:6, pages 875-903.
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Dorrit Posel & Stephanie Rudwick. (2013) Ukukipita (Cohabiting): Socio-Cultural Constraints in Urban Zulu Society . Journal of Asian and African Studies 49:3, pages 282-297.
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Michael Rogan. (2012) Poverty and Headship in Post-apartheid South Africa, 1997–2006. Social Indicators Research 113:1, pages 491-511.
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Deborah Posel. (2013) The ANC youth league and the politicization of race. Thesis Eleven 115:1, pages 58-76.
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