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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.This phenomenon largely links to how women and children are disproportionately represented within the lower socioeconomic status community in comparison to men within the same socioeconomic status. [1]
Structural racism and gender inequality affect access and awareness to healthcare and fertility care, like contraceptives, family planning resources, and sex education. [110] [111] Black and American Indian/Alaska Native cisgender women have a higher risk of infertility compared to White cisgender women. [110]
The consequences of the pay gap include lower lifetime pay for women, less income for families, and higher rates of poverty across the United States. [194] If women receive more benefits equivalent to men, the poverty rate for working women would decrease.
Poverty rates have also plunged during that time, dropping from 13.3% to around 3.5% after adjusting for inflation. But the decrease is due to the corresponding expansion of government benefits ...
Income inequality was the largest driver of the change in the poverty rate, with economic growth, family structure, education and race other important factors. [131] [132] An estimated 11.8% of Americans lived in poverty in 2018, [133] versus 16% in 2012 and 26% in 1967. [134]
Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Poverty is another factor that facilitates the continual existence of gender disparities in health. [2] Poverty is often directly linked with poor health. [60] However, indirectly it affects factors such as lack of education, resources, and transportation that have the potential to contribute to poor health. [60]
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