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Title: Understandings about the interrelationship of gender inequality, poverty and education, and 
gender-based strategies to reduce poverty: Some findings from two case studies in the South African 
education sector 
 
Citation: Karlsson, J. (2009) Understandings about the interrelationship of gender inequality, poverty 
and education, and gender-based strategies to reduce poverty: Some findings from two case studies in 
the South African education sector. Agenda 23 (81), pp. 71-79. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2009.9676255 
 
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2009.9676255 
 
More details/abstract: How do role players in the education sector in South Africa understand the 
interrelationship between gender equality, poverty and education, and what strategies are pursued to 
reduce poverty? In this Focus I explore these questions by drawing on data from school and provincial 
education department case studies in South Africa that were conducted in 2008 and 2009 respectively. 
The findings are that education managers and gender advocates do see an interrelationship between 
poverty and gender inequality and it manifests as three deficits: educational, macro-economic and 
professional. I found that individuals and households and the bureaucracy pursue a range of strategies, 
related to gender, which are aimed at reducing poverty. However, the individual and household 
strategies lead to teen pregnancy that interrupts girls' schooling. One of the Department's strategies 
seeks to obviate that interruption by requiring girls to return and continue their studies, while another 
seeks to organise and empower women economically by establishing women's cooperatives that 
service school feeding schemes. In the conclusion I point to several serious concerns that arise from 
these strategies. 
 
Version: Accepted version 
 
Terms of use:  This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Agenda 
on 3rd May 2011 available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2009.9676255 
 
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