Holbeck Managed Zone: A Failure

This essay focuses on the Holbeck Managed Approach in light of its closure and explores the link between the feminisation of poverty, austerity politics and prostitution being encouraged to replace Welfare. Dr Em asks whether the feminisation of poverty is deliberate in order to create a class of women and girls who are available for men’s sexual exploitation or an accidental consequence of not considering sex-based inequality and oppression in economic measures.