Editing Gender (section)

=== Poverty ===
{{Main|Feminization of poverty}}

Gender inequality is most common in women dealing with poverty. Many women must shoulder all the responsibility of the household because they must take care of the family. Oftentimes this may include tasks such as tilling land, grinding grain, carrying water and cooking.<ref name=UNPD>[https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/povertyreduction/focus_areas/focus_gender_and_poverty/ Gender and Poverty Reduction] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029203731/https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/povertyreduction/focus_areas/focus_gender_and_poverty/ |date=29 October 2014 }}. UNPD.org. 29 October 2014</ref> Also, women are more likely to earn low incomes because of gender discrimination, as men are more likely to receive higher pay, have more opportunities, and have overall more political and social capital then women.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1987|title=The Feminization of Poverty|journal=Journal of Economic Issues|volume=21|issue=1|pages=329–337|jstor=4225831|author=Peterson, Janice|doi=10.1080/00213624.1987.11504613}}</ref> Approximately 75% of world's women are unable to obtain bank loans because they have unstable jobs.<ref name=UNPD /> It shows that there are many women in the world's population but only a few represent world's wealth. In many countries, the financial sector largely neglects women even though they play an important role in the economy, as Nena Stoiljkovic pointed out in ''D+C Development and Cooperation''.<ref>Stoiljkovic, Nena. [https://www.dandc.eu/articles/220419/index.en.shtml Smart finance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217115845/https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/smart-financial-institutions-consider-female-clients-favourably |date=17 February 2022 }}. D+C Development and Cooperation</ref> In 1978 Diana M. Pearce coined the term [[feminization of poverty]] to describe the problem of women having higher rates of poverty.<ref name="ReferenceA">Christopher, Karen, et al. ''The Gender Gap in Poverty in Modern Nations: Single Motherhood, The Market, and the State''. University of California Press.</ref> Women are more vulnerable to chronic poverty because of gender inequalities in the distribution of income, property ownership, credit, and control over earned income.<ref name="ReferenceB">[[Nilufer Cagatay|Cagatay, Nilufer]]. "Trade, Gender and Poverty." pp. 4–8. United Nations.</ref> Resource allocation is typically gender-biased within households, and continue on a higher level regarding state institutions.<ref name="ReferenceB" />
[[File:Gender and poverty 2012.jpg|thumb|A bar graph comparing poverty differences based on age and gender in 2012.]]
Gender and Development (GAD) is a holistic approach to give aid to countries where gender inequality has a great effect of not improving the social and economic development. It is a program focused on the gender development of women to empower them and decrease the level of inequality between men and women.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2008|title=The 'Feminisation of Poverty' and the 'Feminisation' of Anti-Poverty Programmes: Room for Revision?|journal=Journal of Development Studies|volume=44|issue=2|pages=165–197|doi=10.1080/00220380701789810|last1=Chant|first1=Sylvia|s2cid=154939529}}</ref>

The largest discrimination study of the transgender community, conducted in 2013, found that the transgender community is four times more likely to live in extreme poverty (income of less than $10,000 a year) than people who are [[cisgender]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://calculators.io/national-transgender-discrimination-survey/ |title=Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey |first1=Jaime M. |last1=Grant |first2=Lisa A. |last2=Mottet |first3=Justin |last3=Tanis |first4=Jack |last4=Harrison |first5=Jody L. |last5=Herman |first6=Mara |last6=Keisling |publisher=National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force |date=2011 |access-date=20 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120220938/https://calculators.io/national-transgender-discrimination-survey/ |archive-date=20 November 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq |website=GLAAD |title=Transgender FAQ|date=8 November 2013|access-date=12 June 2015|archive-date=8 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508223747/https://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq|url-status=live}}</ref>