15. Women and Poverty, Homelessness
Alternatives for Girls
“... to help homeless and high-risk girls and young women avoid violence, teen pregnancy and exploitation, and help them to explore and access the support, resources and opportunities necessary to be safe, to grow strong and to make positive choices in their lives.”
www.alternativesforgirls.org
Battered Women Support Services [Vancouver]
"Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), as ending violence workers, frequently and regularly work with women facing homelessness. It is the worst form of urban poverty and social vulnerability. Women are one of the groups affected most dramatically by homelessness, in terms of both the challenges they face once homeless and the impacts of the dangers to them of being homeless."
https://www.bwss.org/women-and-homelessness/
Fred Victor [Toronto]
"a social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people living across Toronto."
https://www.fredvictor.org/2022/03/07/women-and-homelessness/
Homeless Prenatal Program
“... family resource center in San Francisco that empowers homeless and low-income families, particularly mothers motivated by pregnancy and parenthood, to find within themselves the strength and confidence they need to transform their lives.”
www.homelessprenatal.org
My Sisters' Place [Hartford, CT]
“... a safe and nurturing environment… for people who have found themselves homeless due to domestic violence, eviction, unemployment or mental illness – the overwhelming majority often women and children.”
www.sistersplacect.org
When the women were able to time and space their pregnancies, they were more likely to advance their education, earn an income, raise healthy children, and have the time and money to give each child the food, care, and education needed to thrive. When children reach their potential, they don’t end up poor. This is how families and countries get out of poverty. In fact, no country in the last fifty years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Life: How Empowering Women Changes the World
“A.” “Protecting men at the women’s shelter.” [2020]
https://archive.ph/x8VC8
Bridget Crawford and Emily Waldman. "Period poverty in the United States: what the law should do." [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/ggRZf
Maypelsyrup. “Why saying ‘uterus havers’ and ‘cervix owners’ is medically dangerous for women, especially the most vulnerable women.” [2021]
https://archive.ph/hlJVi
Nursing @USC Blog. "Unsafe and unwell: How homelessness affects women and how to help." [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/CIYux
Regis College, Master of Science in Nursing. "Period poverty, stigma, and female hygiene gaps in the U.S. and around the world." [2021]
https://archive.ph/7ORza
Raquel Rosario Sanchez. “If ‘white feminism’ is a thing, gender identity ideology epitomizes it.” [2017] https://archive.ph/LNCZd
Amy Smith. "The state of period poverty in the U.S." [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/GJqKe
JR Thorpe. "Over a third of people think period poverty isn't an issue in the U.S.-- they're wrong." [2019]
https://archive.ph/wip/y1451
Wikipedia. "Homeless women in the United States." [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/wip/prkWM
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
― Barber B Conable Jr.
Paul Farmer, M.D. Women, poverty, and AIDS: Sex, drugs, and structural violence, 2nd Ed. 2007. BOOK
https://archive.ph/wip/Ah901
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3528322-women-poverty-and-aids