Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Poverty of Women
- Pay inequity
- Over 24 million
women were living
below the poverty
line in 2009.
- Women make on average 77
cents of every dollar a man
makes.
- African American women earn only 64
cents and Hispanic women only 55 cents
for every dollar made by a white man.
- Women have to work
approximately 60 extra days, or
about three months, to earn
what men did by the end of the
previous year.
- Women are about twice as
likely as men to say they had
been discriminated against at
work because of their gender.
- Poverty of Single Women in Canada
- 21% of single mothers
- 1 in 5
mothers
are
living in
poverty.
- The lack of
affordable
childcare in
Canada also
forces mothers
to limit their
career and
education
opportunities.
- 36% of aboriginal women
- 35% Visible minority women
- Unemployment rates for
immigrants are higher than
unemployment rates for
Canadian-born people.
- 14% Single senior women
- Single senior women who do
not have job security,
pension funds, or retirement
savings risk finding
themselves living in
situations of poverty.
- How can we help women out of poverty?
- Awareness is a key part to ending
poverty in woman
- if more people are aware of the hardships that
woman face it will be easier for us to help these women
- there are many organizations that work towards
helping women and their children out of poverty
that could use our help
- by keanan and cassie