2017-18: Women are more likely to live in households below the poverty line than men (14.1% for women and 13.1% for men, using the 50% median income poverty line).
Quick facts about women living in poverty
Women experience higher rates of poverty than men.
Poverty rates decrease sharply for women and men as they reach adulthood. Rates are, on average, 8.4 percentage points lower for young adults than for children, with no significant difference between females and males. However, from age 20 to age 34, women are two percentage points poorer than men.
Poverty in Australia is highly gendered, according to a new report, with women who are the main income earners for their household experiencing almost twice the level of poverty in 2019-20 as their male counterparts (18 per cent compared with 10 per cent).
The poverty rate is the ratio of the number of people (in a given age group) whose income falls below the poverty line; taken as half the median household income of the total population.
Poverty does exist in wealthy countries like Australia. A 2022 study found that 3.3 million people in Australia live below the poverty line, including 761,000 children.
Australia is a signatory to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The first of these goals is “No poverty”. However, Australia has the 15th highest poverty rate out of the 34 wealthiest countries in the OECD – higher than the average for the OECD; higher than the UK, Germany and New Zealand.
The Sex Ratio in Australia in 2021 is 99.2 males per 100 females. There are 12.84 million males and 12.94 million females in Australia. The percentage of female population is 50.21% compare to 49.79% male population.
Australia's gender pay gap is 22.8%. Women, on average earn, $26,596 less than men each year. Men are twice as likely to be in the top earning bracket and women are 1.5 times more likely to be in the lowest. Every single industry in Australia has a gender pay gap that favours men.
Australia is ranked 43rd for gender equality internationally. 3.9% are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
Gender differences in earnings play an important part in women's poverty, but other factors such as gender disparities in land and property ownership, gender divisions of labour within and beyond the home, gender differences in power and decision-making, and women's vulnerability to gender-based violence are also ...
poverty. There is clearly a tradeoff between gender inequality in household work and women's economic viability. Across nations, the correlation is clear: in countries where women do more of the housework, they are less likely to work; their countries' GDP per capita (PPP) suffers, as do their families' livelihoods.
What is gender inequality? Gender inequality is discrimination on the basis of sex or gender causing one sex or gender to be routinely privileged or prioritized over another. Gender equality is a fundamental human right and that right is violated by gender-based discrimination.
Who is most affected? Poverty rates are disproportionately higher among most non-White populations. Compared to 8.2% of White Americans living in poverty, 26.8% of American Indian and Alaska Natives, 19.5% of Blacks, 17% of Hispanics and 8.1% of Asians are currently living in poverty.
Yearly Spending habits
A Consumer Expenditure Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics studied the spending choices of single women and single men. Here's what they found: Overall spending: Single men outspent single women. Men spent an average of $41,203 a year as opposed to $38,838 by women.
Iceland. Iceland stands at the top of countries with the lowest poverty rates with a poverty rate of 4.9% in 2021.
Inequality has been on steroids in Australia over the last decade with new data revealing the bottom 90% of Australians receive just 7% of economic growth per person since 2009, while the top 10% of income earners reap 93% of the benefits.
More than one in three Australian women has experienced physical or sexual violence in her lifetime and one in two experiences sexual harassment. It is estimated that violence against women and their children cost the Australian economy $22 billion in 2015-16.
The categories of male and female are unchanged. There are a small number of people in Australia who fall outside this binary or will change their gender in their lifetime. The guidelines ensure Australian Government records can reflect this.
The most gender equal nations are Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Sweden. The least gender equal countries are Chad, Iran, Congo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The rankings by the World Economic Forum are based on factors including health, education, economic security and political power.
Childcare staff, receptionists and primary school teachers are among some of the key occupations that have become even more female-dominated in 2021-22, compared to 1986-87. But female employment has jumped slightly in truck driving, from 2.9 per cent in 1986-87 to 4 per cent in 2021-22.
As of 2021, There are 3,970,238,390 or 3,970 million or 3.97 billion males in the world, representing 50.42% of the world population. The population of females in the world is estimated at 3,904,727,342 or 3,905 million or 3.905 billion, representing 49.58% of the world population.
Among all the states and territories in Australia, New South Wales is considered the richest state. It has the largest economy, a diverse range of industries, and a higher-than-average income, which contribute to its status as the wealthiest state.
Mungallala Methodist Church was built in 1964. It has now closed. In 2016, the Australian Taxation Office listed Mungallala as having the lowest mean taxable income by postcode, making it the poorest town in Australia, which led the ABC to do a documentary on the town for their online "storyhunters" program.
Australia's GDP per capita is currently nearly 80 per cent of that of the US, having risen from around 75 per cent in the mid-1980s.