40 per cent of ethnic minority women live in poverty
July 2, 2009 |16:32 | News | World By : Team X
About 40 per cent of ethnic minority women are living in poverty, twice the proportion of white women.
According to a new report by the Fawcett Society and Oxfam, Poverty pathways – ethnic minority women’s livelihoods, poverty extends to more than a third of black women and almost two thirds of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.
Ethnic minority women are amongst the poorest and most socially excluded people in the UK. Yet very little is known about their lives, or how to lift them out of poverty.
Mainstream approaches simply do not see these women or their needs says the report.
This report, published as part of Seeing Double, Fawcett’s flagship campaign on ethnic minority women, shows how the recession is on course to present two major risks if current policy approaches do not adapt:

Approximately 1.2 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty (less than one dollar per day). Poverty creates ill-health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick, without decent shelter, clean water or adequate sanitation.
A third of grandparents in the UK aged under-55 are struggling financially, according to Grandparents Plus.












