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The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'

  • 6 March 2012
  • Kate Donald

Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare claimants, rather than by reference to the structural inequalities that affect everyone. By Kate Donald.

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