The given pie chart delineates poor women’s family formations. While the provided diagram shows the poverty ratios according to gender and age in 2008.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that a majority of women who live in poor families are single with no dependent children. Meanwhile, the poverty rates of women are always higher than men.
It is explicitly observed from the pie chart that, over half of women (54%) are not married and do not have children who rely on them, while over a quarter of women are unmarried with dependent children (26%). On the other hand, only a quarter of women are married, while 8% of them do not have dependent children, and the rest of them ( ) have children who are reliant on them.
According to the diagram, people who are under 5 have the highest poverty rate which is over one-fifth. The first disparity is in people whose ages are 18 to 24 where the poverty ratio of women is over 20% and the poverty rate of men declines to approximately 15%. At the age of 45 to 54, the poverty proportions of men and women are the lowest which is lower than 10%. Consequently, after people’s ages older than 24, there are always some certain contrasts of poverty rates between women and men.