The pie chart displays information about the proportion of American women in poverty according to their family composition, whereas the bar chart illustrates the percentage of women and men in poverty by age.
Overall, it is clear that the vast majority of poor women are single with no dependent children, followed by single women with dependent children. Most of poor individuals were of young age, with women having generally less wealth than men.
Regarding poor women, over half of them were single with no dependent children. This category is followed, albeit distantly, by single women that have dependent children at 26%. Conversely, married women demonstrated different statistics: those with no dependent children and with dependent children accounted for only 8% and 12% of population in need, respectively.
As far as gender and age are concerned, younger individuals showed to be less wealthy in general: 20% and 15% among those under 5 and between 5 and 17 were in poverty, respectively. Older ages, albeit accounting for less poverty in general, demonstrated a wider gap between females and males. People over 75 demonstrated the largest difference between genders, with females and males accounting for 15% and roughly 7%, respectively. Individuals from the age of 35 to the age of 64 showed a lower level of poverty at around a mean of 10% for each age category, although women were generally less wealthy than males with a gap of around 2-3%.