Amsterdam: Gender and Poverty

Abstract

Many words are used to point to poverty. Marginality and social exclusion are relatively new ones. Social exclusion is a contested concept. Generally unemployment is seen to be the most important element. However, social exclusion also relates to generalized disadvantage in terms of education, training, housing and financial resources. Social exclusion also relates to the extent and quality of social networks people are included in.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance and collaboration of Hans Blok and Jorrit Visser in the data collection and analysis.