Poverty and Gender

Getting started

1. 5 Ways to End Poverty by Focusing on Women and Girls

2. Infographic of the Day: women, poverty & inequality

3. Canadian Women in Poverty

4. The Feminization of Poverty, UN Women

Building Your Knowledge and Understanding

1. Feminization of poverty - Wikipedia

2. The Feminization of Poverty - UN Women Watch, May 2000

3. Women and Poverty - UN Women

4. The Female Face of Poverty - The Atlantic

5. This is how companies can close the gender pay gap - Financial Times, 2 Apr 2018

6. Betting on Women in the Fight Against Poverty - The Asia Foundation, 14 Jun 2014

7. What Does Gender Equality Have to Do With Global Poverty - The Life You Can Save, 16 Nov 2016 

8. Single mothers much more likely to live in poverty than single fathers, study finds, PHYSORG, 31 Aug 2015

9. Closing the gender pay gap could have big economic benefits, CNBC, 8 Mar 2018, This website is includes a video and it mentions gender pay gaps in Japan.

10. The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty - Center for American Progress

11. Poverty a growing problem for women - about Japan                

12. 女性の貧困を知るために途上国のジェンダー問題を学ぼう -  国際協力NGO World Vision

13. 貧困のジェンダー差 - Academic research about "Gender gap in poverty",  written by  阿部彩 (首都大学東京教授).

14. 貧困に喘ぐ女性の現実 - 東洋経済オンライン, A lot of articles on this page about Female poverty in Japan.

15. 「明日の食費がない」「子育ては苦しみばかり」【ルポ】シングルマザーの貧困 - 現代ビジネス講談社, 22 Jul 2015

16. 女性の貧困問題の構造 (structure of women's poverty) - PDF of a presentation by Maruyama Satomi, Ritumeikan University

17. Old-age poverty has a woman’s face, UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, 2022