WGSS 30.06 Women and Poverty in the United States
This course will encourage students to understand the connection between women and poverty in the United States: (why) are women more likely to be poor than men? The course will explain this connection between women and poverty by looking at gendered and raced wage gaps; women’s paid and unpaid work within capitalism; the cost of identifying women with caretaking work; stereotypes of poor women; American public policy targeted at (certain) women; and the intersection of (environmental) racism, sexism, and classism.