Feminization Of Poverty

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Fermentation of poverty is the concept used for a large group of females who make up the 56 percent of poverty. Feminization of poverty does not only refer to the percentage of women who have a low income, it also refers to women who lack opportunities. This phenomenon has been around a while and it seems like it has been increasing since WWII. Why has it increased since WWII? If there has been an increase in working women We all know that during WWII women had to step out of their household to do the men’s job, because at that time men were fighting in the war. Women learn to become more independent they learn to work not only like women but also like man. Once man needed women to do their job they recruited them and women did a great job. …show more content…

Women since then have been working and doing the same jobs a man but still are underpaid. I think that we as women have proof that we can get the job and just because man still feels inferior, we get underpaid. One factor imapcts more than the other. In this case the factor that man and women do the same job but still get paid less overcomes the factor that women are hard workers. To that is the main reason why such phenomenon as Feminization of poverty exists. If women were paid as much as men they would indeed have more income than men would. Because women work hard and there is lots of proof to that. Some women for example my aunt, she had to work two jobs to make as much income as my uncle. In one of her jobs that she worked she could be making around the same money as my uncle. She would not have to work two jobs but just because she is a women she has to work harder to make as much as my uncle and be able to provide for her family. I understand that our costumes in every culture are that women are housewives and take care of the children while man go out and work to provide for the family. However, time has change and those costumes are dying or maybe they are not dying because women work and women still get home and play the housewife paper. Maybe it is not like that in every family but it is in the majority. I also give credit to some men they have also filled in the shoes for women in some households, but still they do not struggle as much. I just think that women are expected to do so much and still are treated

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