The Feminization of Poverty Is

The feminization of poverty is

A) less of an issue in the United States than in other Western industrialized nations.
B) a trend that exists in many developing nations but not in the industrialized world.
C) a trend in which women who support themselves or their families have become the majority of the adult population living in poverty.
D) a trend of the past that has been successfully overcome by strong public policies safeguarding women.