Female Poverty Quotes

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.

Poverty is sexist.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could not bear the thought of their becoming children. In a just world this would be the case, but the world is far from just. Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. Poverty has many faces; it may be the poverty of the young, the unmarried, the student, the unemployed, the female or a combination of these.

The Obama economy has led to more women dependent on government programs including food stamps.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Despite media stereotypes, the majority of women who go on welfare did not choose to. They have been abandoned by the men to whom they have entrusted their economic well-being.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.