International Journal of Arts and Humanities (IJAH)

Wealth and poverty are two concepts/phenomena that affect majority of the members of the various societies in the world. Though, wealth is for the select few, poverty is indeed for the majority of the people worldwide. Poverty knows no bound. It has been affecting every category of the people ever since in history. It affects the old, the young, whites, blacks, men, women and children. It however, affects the last two more than the other categories. In fact, women are the most affected by the scourge of poverty. Women are the most vulnerable. The worst of it is that women are the custodians of children, which makes it extremely difficult for the former to get out of poverty. More worst is the fact that women are also in the back seat when it comes to having the vehicles for graduating out of poverty such as education, economic activities, business activities, politics, etc. Women in many societies labour hard to earn a living. On many occasions, women have to pass through very turbulent and difficult terrains to be able to survive. On the other hand, women are very enterprising in nature. When opportune, women can do and excel better like their counterparts, men, if not better than them. There are many examples of such successful women in our various societies. The only problem is that women are, on several occasions and in many societies, denied the opportunities to strive to become self reliant. This paper intends to discuss and highlight the relationship between women and poverty in our society with a view to exposing the pathetic conditions women find themselves in and as well offer solutions and ways out of such quagmire.