This article employs the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to compare poverty rates for female-headed households (FHHs … problems associated with measuring poverty, we present several estimates of poverty for both types of household. Two sections …) with poverty rates for other households in a number of developed and transitional economies. It then seeks to explain why …

feminization of poverty. First, there is the issue of household structure. Second, there is the issue of occupational sex … segregation. This paper seeks to examine if either household structure or occupational sex segregation can help explain the … relatively high poverty rates experienced by female-headed families. …