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Microinsurance that Works for Women : Making Microinsurance Programs Gender-Sensitive |
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Women comprise 70 percent of the world`s poor.
They earn less income than men and have less
ownership and control of property. They face
disproportionate levels of physical vulnerability and
violence. When these vulnerabilities are combined
with the responsibility of ensuring the welfare and
security of their families, it is clear that women have a
unique and pressing need for appropriate means to
manage risk.
Women tend to dominate in the roles of caregiver,
homemaker, and increasingly as household resource
managers and income earners, through formal
employment or informal businesses. Inherent to these
roles is the responsibility of coping with risks such as
health problems, death in the family or emergencies.
Unmanaged, any one of these risks can deliver
serious and often devastating financial shocks to poor
women and their households, potentially intensifying
poverty, instability and vulnerability. |
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10 2009 |
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Anjali Banthia, Susan Johnson, Michael J. McCord and Brandon Mathews
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