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Several factors affect the feminization of poverty, and these factors place women at high risk of poverty.

Though low income is the major cause, there are many interrelated facets of this problem.

Lone mothers are usually at the highest risk for extreme poverty because their income is insufficient to rear children.

It then lowers their children ’ s possibilities for good education and nourishment.

Low income is a consequence of the social bias women face in trying to obtain formal employment, which in turn deepens the cycle of poverty.

As the number of unmarried women increases, the diverse causes affecting their poverty must be examined.

Poverty is multidimensional, and therefore economic, demographic, and socio-cultural factors all overlap and contribute to the establishment of poverty.

It is a phenomenon with multiple root causes and manifestations.