University of Wisconsin - Madison Institute for Research on Poverty
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Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors study the relationship between women's poverty and women's roles--being married or single, having children or not, and working or not. Specifically, they test the assumption that women who play the "traditional" role of marriedmother-homemaker are protected from poverty, and they investigate the extent to which "nontraditional" women--that is, women who are single, childless, and work outside the home--are at risk of poverty. The authors conclude that although marriage and work reduce the risk of poverty, being a mother increases it; the only mothers who have a better-than-average chance of staying out of poverty are those who combine motherhood with work and marriage. As for women who play the nontraditional roles of single and employed, they are actually less likely to be poor than any other group of women, including traditional women. Women's Roles and Women's Poverty in Eight Industrialized Countries
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