Women-headed households seem to be worse affected by the socio-economic effects brought on by Covid-19 socioligist and UCT associate proffesor Dr Elena Moore dissects.
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E-Seminar: Care arrangements and access to state services
The seminar presents research findings from researchers at the Children’s Institute on challenges in securing state services for children living in specific care arrangements, most…
Financing Social Reproduction
Financing Social Reproduction: Women’s responsibilities in financing and undertaking household social reproduction in multigenerational households in South Africa.
E-Seminar: Women, Work and Care during Covid-19
In the seminar, scholars from South Africa and the UK reflect on the ways in which Covid-19 is shaping women’s work and family obligations in…
Covid-19 emergency child support grants need flexibility to accommodate fluid caregiving
Covid-19 emergency relief child support grants are tied to a ‘primary caregiver’ model of childcare. But in South Africa, where family relations are often fluid and childcare…
Sidla imbuya ngothi (We are very poor): Child Support Grants and Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic will deepen existing glaring racial disparities among children. We know already that children’s access to resources varies dramatically by race.
Family dynamics in multi-generational households during Covid-19
How do multi-generational families adjust when Covid-19 enters a household through illness or economic loss? How are patterns of care and financial support transformed and what conflicts emerge?
Women-headed households and Covid-19
In the second instalment of a three-part series, Elena Moore looks at multi-generational households headed by women in employment. The first article examined the possible impact of Covid-19 on old age grant-receiving households. If disease enters a household, it will have different impacts depending on the family, family assets, levels of domestic violence and levels of poverty.
Old age grants hold together many a household
In a three-part series on the dynamics of Covid-19 on care and money within households, Professor Elena Moore unpacks thorny issues in intergenerational relationships, responsibilities and obligations. She outlines care-giving and financial challenges families face. This first article looks specifically at challenges in old age grant-receiving households.
PowerFM – Old Age Grants
In this podcast, Elena Moore discusses some of the possible consequences of the precarious position of many pension-headed households in South Africa in the wake of Covid-19.