ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how gender intersects with other forms of inequality to differentiate both the experience of poverty as well as the processes that lead to its reproduction over time. Women’s experience of poverty is bound up with inequalities within the household in the distribution of resources, responsibilities, and well-being and with inequalities in the wider domain in terms of the discrimination they face and their marginal status in labour markets and public policy. The article focuses on how moments of crisis, those particular to households as well as those of a more generalised nature, reveal and exacerbate these inequalities and their effects far more clearly than ‘normal times’. The COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception.
