Cultural Norms and Gender Roles Shaping Poverty Outcomes

This chapter examines how cultural norms and traditional gender roles perpetuate and intensify poverty among women in the Global South. Cultural practices such as bride price, gendered time allocation, and restricted access to education create systemic barriers that trap women in cycles of economic vulnerability. The chapter analyzes the intersectional nature of gender-based poverty, exploring how cultural expectations regarding women's domestic responsibilities, marriage practices, and educational opportunities combine with structural inequalities to limit women's economic autonomy and well-being. Drawing on recent empirical research from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the analysis demonstrates that cultural norms shape poverty outcomes through multiple pathways: restricting women's labor market participation, perpetuating educational disparities, reinforcing gendered divisions of unpaid care work, and constraining women's decision-making power within households.

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