Interpretation
Poverty is a global issue that has impacted most aspects of society, especially women. The issue of women within society has a history of injustice which lead to inequalities and gender.
Analysis
The biggest trend within poverty is the feminization of poverty, which means that women is becoming the larger number within poverty. According to Alexandra Cawthorne, an Analyst from Center for American Progress’s Poverty and Prosperity & Women’s Health and Rights Programs’s Research Associate, in her article “The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty”, Cawthorne (2008) states: the poverty rates are higher for women (13.8 %) than men (11.1%) in 2007. Not only that, “the feminization of poverty has particular significance in the growing and shifting homeless population” (Stoner 1983, 567). More women are suffering from financial disadvantage and falling into the depth of poverty due to many factors, for instance, domestic violence and abuse, lack of housing, and unemployment.
As the feminization of poverty increases, it becomes difficult for the poors to escape poverty. In order to …show more content…
In addition, population would be able to slow down, thus this reduce the rate of overpopulation globally. Human need to decrease the rate of overconsumption as the popuation is exceeding the carry capacity of the Earth’s natural resources (Grossman 2012, 974). Decreasnig the number of global population is a sustainable way to the Earth as its resources are scarces. The recent global trend of overpopulation is human impact on Earth’s limited recources. Earth’s resources are insufficient for the population to consum. As there are over 7 billion population (and still increasing) on Earth, thus the fast rate of overpopulation is negatively affecting the development of sustainability on
Poverty is a global issue that has impacted most aspects of society, especially women. The issue of women within society has a history of injustice which lead to inequalities and gender.
Analysis
The biggest trend within poverty is the feminization of poverty, which means that women is becoming the larger number within poverty. According to Alexandra Cawthorne, an Analyst from Center for American Progress’s Poverty and Prosperity & Women’s Health and Rights Programs’s Research Associate, in her article “The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty”, Cawthorne (2008) states: the poverty rates are higher for women (13.8 %) than men (11.1%) in 2007. Not only that, “the feminization of poverty has particular significance in the growing and shifting homeless population” (Stoner 1983, 567). More women are suffering from financial disadvantage and falling into the depth of poverty due to many factors, for instance, domestic violence and abuse, lack of housing, and unemployment.
As the feminization of poverty increases, it becomes difficult for the poors to escape poverty. In order to …show more content…
In addition, population would be able to slow down, thus this reduce the rate of overpopulation globally. Human need to decrease the rate of overconsumption as the popuation is exceeding the carry capacity of the Earth’s natural resources (Grossman 2012, 974). Decreasnig the number of global population is a sustainable way to the Earth as its resources are scarces. The recent global trend of overpopulation is human impact on Earth’s limited recources. Earth’s resources are insufficient for the population to consum. As there are over 7 billion population (and still increasing) on Earth, thus the fast rate of overpopulation is negatively affecting the development of sustainability on