Question

Women make up 45% of the world’s workforce. What percentage of these women live in poverty?
A.
25%
B.
40%
C.
70%
D.
85%

Please select the best answer from the choices provided.

A
B
C
D

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 70%

Explanation:

Answer 2

c. 70%

Explanation:

• Women make up nearly 70 percent of the world's poor. Gender inequality is one of the world's oldest and most common forms of inequality. It refuses women their rights, devalues their jobs, and makes the status of women unequal to men, from household to national and regional.
• The majority of women earn on average about three-fourths of the male wage for the same work, outside the agricultural sector, in both developed and developing countries; the gap is not decreasing.
• In developed countries, 75 per cent of women live in the informal sector-where they are less likely to have work contracts, social security, or legal rights and are also not paying enough to avoid poverty. In the most insecure and precarious modes of employment 600 million women are working.