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female-headed households

Title English: 
female-headed households
Definition English: 
Household where either no adult males are present, owing to divorce, separation, migration, non-marriage or widowhood, or where men, although present, do not contribute to the household income. ( The ILO Thesaurus, 2005)
Title Arabic: 
أسر معيشية ترأسها نساء
Title French: 
foyers dirigés par des femmes
Domain: 
Gender
Subject: 
Gender Statistics
InformationType: 
Term
SourceSymbol: 
Language staff