Traduction de «Ménage dont le chef est une femme » (Français → Anglais) :

female-headed household | women maintained household | women sustained houdehold

female-maintained household

head of household [ head of the family ]

woman head of household [ female head of household ]

relation to the head of household | relationship to the head of family

head cleaning man [ head cleaning woman ]

female-headed household

Women are generally at greater risk of living in a poor household: in 2001, 16% of adult women (aged 16 years or more) had an income below the threshold, against 13% of men in the same age group [5].

However, the profile of poverty has not changed: it affects mainly the larger households (of five people or more: for them the incidence of poverty in 2002 was 24.6%) and those whose head is unemployed (the incidence is 32.3%), and it is still overwhelmingly concentrated in the South (the at-risk-of-poverty rate is 23.6%), where the rate is more than four times higher than in the North (5.4%).

We are talking about more 1,670,700 households, the majority of which are single parent families headed by women.

The Nap 2003 takes into consideration a broad array of trends: the persistence of the concentration of poverty in the South, in large households and among those with one or more elderly people or whose head is unemployed; the already mentioned effects of the increase in ageing population combined with a low fertility rate; the recent increases in labour force geographical mobility from the South to the North of Italy and in the immigration flux; the considerable size of the informal economy; the low employment rate of disabled people (in particular women); and the development of the volunteer and third sectors.