Women and poverty in Morocco: The many faces of social exclusion

This article focuses on the gender dimension of poverty in Morocco. It ques tions the inadequate parameters relied on in the existing studies on the su bject and underlines their blindness to the complex causes and effects of p overty among the female population in the country. The article then approac hes female poverty from its multidimensional perspective in order to underl ine the social, cultural, legal as well as economic aspects and implication s of poverty. The final section of the article gives a critical reading of some of the strategies currently adopted to reduce the incidence of poverty in Morocco.