• G SHARMILA

In India, the majority of households that are headed by women have many economic and social problems. Female Headed Houses often faced with issues such as cultural discrimination, lack of access to job opportunities, low literacy and lack of regular income. Socio-Economic factor of poverty directly and indirectly affects on the cultural, social and ecological condition of Female Headed Houses.The feminization of poverty is the key concept for describing Female Headed House`s social and economic level. The feminization of poverty is the process whereby poverty becomes more concentrated among individuals living in female-headed households. Feminization of poverty has some familiar features.Women experience a higher incidence of poverty than men. Women experience greater depth/severity of poverty than men (i.e. more women are likely to suffer ‘extreme’ poverty than men).Women are prone to suffer more persistent/longer-term poverty than men. Women’s disproportionate burden of poverty is rising relatively to men. Women face more barriers for lifting themselves out of poverty. The ‘feminization of poverty’ is linked with the ‘feminization of household headship’. Women-headed households are the ‘poorest of the poor’. Female household headship transmits poverty to children (‘inter-generational transmission of disadvantage’).

Households, Feminization, Poverty, Job Opportunities, Socio-Economic.

"A STUDY ON FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLD IN EKANGIPURAM SLUM- PERAMBUR, CHENNAI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.99-106, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N17.pdf

"A STUDY ON FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHOLD IN EKANGIPURAM SLUM- PERAMBUR, CHENNAI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp99-106, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904N17.pdf