Women and Poverty

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This paper discusses and compares poverty rates and economic disparities between men and women in Canada and the United States, showing that women in both countries make less than men, are more likely to be in poverty, suffer most when social programs are cut, and show other types of discrimination as well, with minority women suffering the most, and with their children living in poverty more than most observers deem necessary.

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"Women have been joining the workforce in considerable numbers in most of the industrialized world for the past three or four decades, and it has been noted many times that this does not mean they achieve parity with males working the same jobs. Instead, women tend to make less than men in the same jobs in many companies and situations in the United States. Employers have many rationales for this difference, including the long-standing view that men have families to support and women do not, though the large number of women today who are the head of a household makes this rationale false."

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