Feminization Of Poverty In America

When someone mentions Poverty I think of the state of being extremely poor. Unfortunately, women are faced with many inequalities in a modern society. Feminization of poverty is this concept of women and their children as America’s poorest people. Poverty among women is steadily increasing worldwide. The feminization of poverty isn't just a North American trend. The percentage of single-parent households has been increasing worldwide. Issues such as domestic violence, abandonment, divorce, young pregnancies and male migration contribute to poverty. Every society has their own interpretation of women, what they are capable of and what kind of jobs they can and can't work. According to Charlotte Alter, there is a likelihood that women that are …show more content…
Being that some families are vulnerable economically, educationally, and socially, single mothers and their family are going through difficulties. As a result of the huge increase in mother-only families along with their high but rather steady rate of poverty this type of family is the major poverty group in America. Some of the reasons why mother-only families are so poor would be the low earnings capacity of single mothers, and the lack of child support from noncustodial fathers. “Feminization of Poverty” is a phrase used to explain the gruesome struggle that many women go through until this day. Women have many responsibilities, not to mention they make less money than men. The women have to be able to provide for a broken family, including the children, although they make less money. If women work two jobs its still a struggle to provide for their family. For a female it is hard to get a job that a man can get, and even if they do get it, they do not get paid what a man would because a woman can not do all of the things that a man can. “Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women, and these workers often get zero paid sick days.Two-thirds of American women are either the primary or co-breadwinners of their families.”(Charlotte Alter) Due to the fact that women don’t make the same that men do they have to support the family and they have nothing left for themselves. Sometimes they don’t even have enough money to support the family with the little money the little money that they do have. Many educational factors contribute to this lack of support. Society portrays women as a stay home mother, raising the kids, cooking, and cleaning. People don't believe that women are just as capable as men. “The average woman is paid 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, and that figure is much lower for black and Latina women; African American women earn only 64 cents and Hispanic women only