Women in Poverty

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This paper presents a detailed examination of women who live in poverty. The writer identifies the most significant independent variable as well as the dependent variable using several sources of research. Variables or cause factors examined are the differences in wages between men and women, the fact that single parent women are expected to raise children and support them and many others.

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"Women in poverty have been a topic of study for many years. The women who live below the poverty level are often single parents and their children are suffering right along with them. There are several things that maintain the female gender as the poor gender in the world, some are controllable but must of the variables are not. Before one can understand the plight of the poverty stricken female one must first have an understanding of what things put them there and how they might be able to change other aspects to improve their situation."

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