%0 Journal Article
%T The effect of womenĄŻs care-giving role on their social security rights
%A K Malherbe
%A L Wakefield
%J Law, Democracy & Development
%D 2009
%I University of the Western Cape
%X Kitty Malherbe and Lorenzo Wakefield show how roles traditionally allotted to women may obstruct their access to the right to social security. There are instances where womenĄŻs care-giving role provides them with benefits they otherwise would not have had, such as child support grants. On the other hand, care-giving can exclude women from the application of other benefits, such as certain retirement funds. The authors examine the need for measures aimed at providing assistance to women as care-givers as well as the potential pitfalls of such measures, such as the danger of stereotyping women as care-givers.
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