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Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective
- Source :
- Social Indicators Research
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Netherlands, 2020.
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Abstract
- Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways. The study presents a comparison of the principal determinants of individual food insecurity in Europe and other Continents, with particular regard to gender, since the literature clearly states the importance of women in the administration of food in the household. The study of gender related differences in food insecurity is particularly important in Europe, since women experience food insecurity at a larger extent than men, but with a variability related to the geographical distribution and with complex relationships with economic and social drivers. Using a large international sample of individual level data, that allows the analysis for developed Countries for the first time, and the first experiential measure of food insecurity comparable at the global level, the paper analyses the principal determinants of gender differences in food insecurity. In order to verify if women’s vulnerability in food insecurity is moderated by specific factors, the modelling approach allows gender to vary by education, poverty, place of residence. The results suggest that the driver that could most mitigate women disadvantage is education: people with a university degree present a lower probability of experiencing food insecurity, both for men and for women. On the contrary, familial characteristics, such as the number of children in the household, present a higher impact on women’s food insecurity than on men’s.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science
Vulnerability
Distribution (economics)
050109 social psychology
Ordered logistic regression
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
0502 economics and business
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050207 economics
Disadvantage
Original Research
Poverty
Food insecurity
business.industry
Public health
05 social sciences
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
General Social Sciences
Gender
Europe
Residence
Demographic economics
Ordered logit
Psychology
business
Developed country
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15730921 and 03038300
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Indicators Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1eba97642d3e926df01eb67a841b99ee