Regarding the Feminization of Poverty, the author explains how poverty is measured, that women comprise a major and growing proportion of the world’s poor today (Crapo, 2013 par 9.4). Women are more vulnerable living in poverty, since relying totally on government assistance, affecting very young women to much older women whom are either single with children or widowed. According to information from the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2009, over 55% of all people living in poverty in the United States were female. Largely because single-parent households are overrepresented among the poor, and are much more likely to be headed by women than by men. However, the problem of poverty in single parents is particularly acute, as childcare responsibilities
