Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the...

Political values are a central motivation for political behavior, prompting significant research programs in political science and public opinion research, but rigorous efforts to compare any two such research programs are rare, which creates barriers to developing theory and improved...