Female household headship and household survival in SowetoFootnote^[1]

This paper is based on a PhD thesis in preparation ‘Women‐Headed Households’ Economic Survival Strategies: The Case of Soweto, South Africa’, under the auspices of the Geography Department of SOAS. I wish to thank Deborah Potts who is supervising this work, and AET for financial support.

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