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Poverty and Gender Difference among the Youth of the Douala Metropolis of Cameroon

Nanche Robert, university of maroua

We use the explanatory sequential mixed method: in the first phase we randomly administered 610 questionnaires. In the second phase, we purposefully selected and interviewed 50 poor youths in order to explain in detail the initial quantitative results. We discovered that despite the fact that men have a higher academic level, decent jobs and earn higher salary than women, women relatively eat more times, take a variety of meals and enough vegetables and fruits daily contrary to men who consume it either weekly, monthly, yearly or occasionally. Equally, women significantly prefer the hospital than men who will take traditional medicine. More so, women rent relatively more expensive houses than men, surprisingly, women are significantly homeowners than men, have homes with nearly all the qualities unlike men who significantly have only potable water. This is because women are more dependent and live in a family house than men who are independent. Further more, men prefer more energetic leisure activities than women whose leisure activities are more pleasurable. All these are just random variation because there are no correlations in any way between gender and the components of poverty which are domestic comfort, feed habit apart from meals frequency.

Keywords: Gender, Health and morbidity, Family demography, Children and youth

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  Presented in Session P21.