The feminization of poverty refers to:
a. a trend in which females represent an increasing proportion of the poor.
b. the fact that more feminists are poor these days.
c. a phenomenon in which nearly all of the social workers who work with the poor are female.
d. the fact that females seem to cope with poverty better than males.
e. the fact that as more women have entered the labor force, they have lowered women's wages.
A
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