Discussion :: Para Completion
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Poverty is hitting increasing numbers of women, and it is hitting them harder, ---- The percentage of female-headed households varies from thirty to forty percent in some south and south-east Asian countries, to almost half of all households in developing as well as in industrial countries.(A) This 'feminisation' of poverty is linked closely to the increase in poor female-headed households in developing as well as in industrial countries.(B) The greatest burden of the world economic recession is increasingly borne by those least able to sustain it : women and children.(C) Low-income women have sought paid work to compensate for decline in household income.
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Answer : Option A
Explanation :
Only statement A can be inserted between the two given sentences. The first sentence talks about increasing number of women being hit hard by poverty. Statement A which talks about the increase in poor female-headed households in developing countries follows the first statement and ideally precedes the last statement which talks about the percentage of female-headed households in Asian and African countries.
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