Why Are Female Headed Households More In Poverty?
Why Are Female Headed Households More In Poverty? Hunger and food-insecurity are caused by poverty. Gender discrimination and, for many, racial/ethnic discrimination make women more likely to be poor. Female-headed households are more than twice as likely as all U.S. households to be poor (30.6 percent vs. 14.8 percent). Why are female-headed households at greatest