The situation of rural women living in extreme poverty and their family, the men are permanently unemployed, in Hungary

This study presents the situation of those women living in extreme poverty and in their family, the men became permanently unemployed so they keep – mostly from income earned by them – the family members. The study seeks to find answers for the question: “How are these families arranged?; Does the role of men change due to staying at home?; Does the role expected of the women change?; Do the traditional covenants loosen or on the contrary, the male-female symbolic distance get bigger?”. The basis of the study is a qualitative research built on 89 in-depth interviews that primarily aim to discover the rural women’s situation in their families living in extreme poverty. We briefly summarize the daily life situations, feeling, conflicts experienced by the women and resulting from the men’s unemployment.