______ is the channelling of an increasing number of women into low-status, poorly paid manual work.

Female proletarianization refers to an increasing number of women working in low-status, poorly paid manual jobs.Important Points

• Female proletarianization is the social process whereby people move from being either an employer, unemployed or self-employed, to being employed as wage labor by an employer.
• Female Proletarianization is often seen as the most important form of downward social mobility.

Additional Information

• Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty.
• Feminization of labor refers to women's increased participation in paid work as well as to the deterioration of working conditions in previously male jobs.