A recent survey showed that 44.1 percent of single Japanese women aged 65 and older are living in poverty, much higher than the rate for single elderly men. The poverty level is as severe as that ...

In the latest installment of the "CBS Mornings" series "The State of Spirituality with Lisa Ling," the Focolare Movement is ...

A report from the U.N. points out that households headed by single women with young children are at significantly higher risk of living in poverty. This fact was supported by the Wells Fargo ...

About half of single-parent households live below the poverty line. Japanese society also tends to favor full-time male workers, and women often receive lower wages and fewer benefits ...

Women, who on average still earn less than men, are more likely to live in poverty. The official poverty rate for families with children headed by a single woman was double the rate for those ...

Consequently, they end up living in shanties”. Feminization of poverty The women in poverty-stricken urban neighbourhoods have been marginalised and trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty ...

What the 2020 Poverty Situation Report revealed Ann, 36, a single mother of two girls, is one of the city’s impoverished women. After her divorce in 2018, she was entitled to receive a monthly ...