Large+Scale+Poverty+For+Women


 * __Local Poverty Rates__**; Wilkes Barre has a vast population of struggling women with the worst cases between the ages of eighteen to twenty-four, 58.0% of which have families with no male present in these poor families. However only 19.2% of the of poverty rate are native born members of the community, foreign born members of the community stack up to about 50.6% of the impoverished part of the community. Wilkes Barre has higher below poverty rates then the state average in almost every category from high school graduates 26.3% to children 29.7% who are all below the state average in poverty


 * __U.S.A Poverty Rates For Women;__** In the United States 36.5 million people lived with incomes below the poverty level With more then 12 percent of women aged 18 years and older lived in poverty, in comparison to only 8.8 percent of men in the poverty levels. other large differences are seen in age and race such as only % of white females are in poverty,wile Indian and Alaska Native women were the most likely in with a rate of 27.6 percent, then followed closely by Black women with 23.4 percent and Hispanic women coming in at 20.2 percent.

__**Global Poverty Rates with Women;**__ Unlike in the United States women in a global aspect women are seen not seen as equals in all societies so it is more likely for a woman to be stuck in poverty in such places like the middle east for example where they do not see women as able to support themselves and looked at as property. Women are estimated to be more then 70% of the worlds poor. This is due to the fact that even women who do work are willing to travel away from their family and must send money home as we read in a few of our reading such as Bread Winner No More and other. Also women who work are willing to take less wages which creates the problem we see in Mexico today with femicide.

http://www.city-data.com/poverty/poverty-Wilkes-Barre-Pennsylvania.html http://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa08/popchar/pages/104wp.html http://www.unifem.org/gender_issues/women_poverty_economics/