Empowering Women
| Date | 01 December 1989 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058903600405 |
| Published date | 01 December 1989 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Empowering
Women
Women
are
universally
disadvantaged
and,
along
with
black
people,
are
targetted
to
be
members
of
any
underclass,
suffering
financial
and
social
vulnerability,
violence
and
deprivation.
Workers
often
feel
very
inhibited
in
counteracting
such
powerful
forces,
especially
when
women
clients
appear
to
evade
office
help
or
to
make
continuously
unwise
choices.
Karen
Buckley
and
Chris
Wilson
of
Nottinghamshire
Probation
Service
offer
a
rationale
for
feminist
practice.
a9
ender
is
the
most
significant
statistical
indicator
of
your
place
in
society:
the job
you
will
have
access
to,
your
income
level,
your
respon-
responsibility
for
dependants,
your
lack
of
ownership
of
&dquo;w’
~~
resources,
your
access
to
education.
It
is
generally
acknowledged
that
poverty
is
ende~nic
in
what
we
like
to
call
the
Third
World,
and
that
relative
poverty
and
the
gap
between
the
rich
and
the
poor
is
increasing
all
the
time
in
such
countries
as
the
United
States
and
Britain.
What
is
less
frequently
articulated
is
the
increasing
extent
to
which
women
are
represented
amongst
the
world’s
poor
Both
economic
developments
in
richer
coun-
tries
and
colonial
and
post-
colonial
interference
in
less
developed
countries
has
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