This graph shows the rate of poverty among all people by gender. It shows that people identifying as female are more likely to live in households below the poverty line than those identifying as male, no matter which poverty line is used. Because this website focuses on household incomes, the gap between male and female poverty rates is much less than the gender gap in personal incomes.

2017-18: Women are more likely to live in households below the poverty line than men (14.1% for women and 13.1% for men, using the 50% median income poverty line). The poverty rate for households with a female reference person or main earner is almost twice as high (19.2% using the 50% median income poverty line) as when the main earner is male (10.2% using the 50% median income poverty line). When the 60% of median income pvoerty line is ued, the poverty rates are 28.4% and 16.5% respectively.

2015-16: This graph shows hows that women are more likely to live in households below the poverty line than men, regardless of which poverty line is used (13.4% as against 13.0% for men based on the 50% poverty line, and 21.6% as against 20.6% using the 60% poverty line).