Women Heads of Households

HOUSEHOLDS HEADED BY WOMEN

WOMEN (No.)

7 023 h. awarded to women heads of family. 20 900 h. of uncultivated common land transferred to women heads of family

The percentage of households with women as the head of the households is 14.8 .

WOMEN AS HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD

Support for households headed by women

Female headed households display an incidence of poverty 1.3 times higher than households headed by men.

Development programme for families headed by women

(b) Women as heads of household

Subsidy for school children dependent on women heads of household

The table below shows that in 1981, 22.1 per cent of heads of household were women, a situation that remained largely unchanged in 1991, when 23.3 per cent were women.

Females headed more than 40 per cent of all households in 1996, compared to 25 per cent in 1991.

Table 4 Female heads of households, by region

Support for women heads of household (Law 82 of 1993).

According to the age structure, women are heads of households in their older age, i.e. 28.75 are women at the age of 70 and more.

Women heads of family subsidies under the quot Vivir Mejor quot Programme

WOMEN HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD

The constitutional mandate providing special protection for pregnant women and women heads of household.

Women heads of family involved in irrigation districts 65 participants in district management boards

Thousands of women have become heads of households (78 per cent of heads of displaced families are women) because their spouses have died or abandoned the family.

Female headed households constitute 70 per cent of the world's homeless 30 per cent of Argentinian homes are female headed, and 70 per cent of them live in poverty.

According to the marital status, the largest percentage of 63.7 are divorced women heads of households, while 18.1 married women are heads of households.

246. But in some cases, women assume the role of head of the household.

The constitutional mandate to provide special protection for pregnant women and women heads of household.

Only 8.6 of the married women declared themselves to be head of the household.

Development programme for families headed by women of the National Office for Equality for Women.

In 1995 there were 33,795 beneficiaries, some 70 per cent of whom were women heads of household.

Provincial variations are apparent, with Western province exhibiting the highest proportion of female heads of households, while Lusaka hosting the capital city of the country has the least (see figure 2).

Only 10 12 of these certificates were registered in women's names because these heads of households are single women or widows.

In 1987 95 per cent of men heads of household lived with their spouse or companion, but women heads did so in only 12 per cent of cases (the lack of a spouse or companion is indeed one of the criteria for defining a woman head of household) in addition, 31 per cent of women heads of household suffered from some illness, but the number of men in this situation was lower (17 ) and the level of education of the women was lower (3.4 years) than that of men (5.1 years).

According to surveys carried out in some localities, the number of households headed by women who enter into loan contracts accounts for 37 .

Assuming an average of five persons per household, the number of people in households headed by women would be 5,500,000.

Vulnerable women such as female heads of households and widows were specifically targeted for these initiatives.

The ratio of households headed by women increased to nearly 27 in the year 2003.

Note The coefficients of variation for the unemployment rate of women heads of household are over 20 per cent.

363. Households headed by women were most vulnerable to poverty.

While only 13.8 per cent of overall households in the refugee population were headed by women, female headed households accounted for 46 per cent of the special hardship families, clearly illustrating the feminization of poverty in the refugee population.

But that participation is even greater among those women fulfilling the role of head of household.

From 1981 to 1993, a major increase of households headed by women was recorded.

The Episcopal Conference estimates that among the displaced population 24.6 per cent of households are headed by women.

Currently, women head more than 90 of the families receiving the benefit.

The pattern is that the greater the poverty level, the greater the likelihood that a household will be headed by a woman.

In Cesar it made a socio economic study of women heads of household.

Most of the women become heads of household following widowhood or breakdown of the spousal relationship.