Abstract
Financial and social resources at the
personal, institutional, and neighborhood levels can counterbalance the
economic insecurity many women face as a result of both caregiving
and changes to household composition. National-level data show that
families’ access to these resources varies systematically by race and
gender. Overall, white families are more likely to have higher levels
of resources at all three levels, while black families tend to have less
access to and lower levels of such resources (Acevedo-Garcia, Osypuk,
McArdle, & Williams, 2008; Thomas, Meschede, Mann, Boguslaw,
& Shapiro, 2014). Families headed by single parents, particularly
mothers, also tend to have significantly lower levels of each type of
resource than do those with two adult contributors (Chang & Lui, 2010;
Chang & Mason, 2010)