Missing Men: The Debate Over Rural Poverty and Women Headed Households in Southern Africa
Author(s)
O’Laughlin, B
Abstract
Migrant labour in Southern Africa has been historically associated with rural poverty and a high incidence of women-headed households. Poverty alleviation approaches to socila policy ask whether in this context rural women-headed households are poorer than those headed by men. Ample research from the region shows that the answer is no, not always, a fact once more confirmed here in an analysis of the Botswana case.
