Women's Poverty and Women's Development:From the Perspective of Social Security Rights
Compared to men,women are not only more likely to fall into poverty,but also more difficult to get out of poverty.Women constitute the main target of social security care,and their dependence on social security in turn proves their level of poverty.The gender neutral oriented social security system does not take into account the systemic disadvantages of women,making it difficult to effectively prevent and alleviate female poverty.As the core concept of the social security system,the legalization of social security rights marks the shift of people's understanding of poverty from individual factors to social structural factors.However,if only formal equality is used to promote the realization of women's social security rights,it will instead replicate and exacerbate women's poverty problems.Therefore,substantive equality should be used to explain social security rights.The understanding of the transformative nature of substantive equality requires the social security system to adopt gendered measures,including:in terms of redistribution,tilting towards female groups from both the national level and the internal family level;In terms of cognitive dimensions,break down gender stereotypes and take positive measures to promote gender equality in employment;In terms of transformation dimension,promote the socialization of household chores,thereby expanding the qualification requirements of social security rights;On the dimension of participation,construct a comprehensive public care service for children to share and transfer women's family care responsibilities.
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