Poverty is hitting increasing numbers of women and it is hitting them harder The percentage of femal...........

English ( Master) Paragraph Completion

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.

Only A

A and B

Only B

Only C

All the three

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Explanation:

Correct Answer is (a).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.