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Monday, 17 October 2011
Social Mobility and Child Poverty review
The key to tackling child poverty and social mobility is to tackle women's poverty. Children's wellbeing cannot be divorced from that of their mothers and it is harder for women to move up the income ladder in their lifetimes.
The cumulative effects of working in low paid and undervalued jobs, the rising costs of living, changes to the tax and benefits system, periods of unemployment and having to work part-time due to caring for children and dependent adults, and discrimination and inequality all make it far more difficult for women to find a way out of poverty than men.
Strategies to address child poverty and social mobility must develop gender sensitive policies so that women and men have the same opportunities to move out of poverty and up the income ladder.
