In all the analyses of the African crisis, the impact on children and women has been grossly underemphasized. The … potential role of women in implementing and designing measures to alleviate and reverse the current economic malaise has … received equally little systematic attention. To respond to the human problems of African women and children, the author claims …

Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women's employment … should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of women's increased participation in the … income, which can vary by gender. In the past, women from low-income households have typically entered the labor force, while …