single women can take advantage of alimony or child support and social programs, AFDC (welfare), rental assistance, etc. so they don't always have to work and they can negotiate better salaries than single men who have to either work or starve to death so they have to take whatever a company will give them when competition for employment is high.
First of all, not all single women get help from social programs. It's single mothers that have to support a family. Around here it costs $100.00 a week for one child to be in day-care full-time. If you are only making minumum wage then after taxes are taken out, you are probably only bringing home $50.00 a week in pay. If those social programs were not there, then there would be alot of homeless children. Single men just take care of themselves and unless you are mentally ill, disabled, or a drug addict; there is no reason why any able bodied single man cannot take care of themselves.
Also, welfare is not like how it used to be. They give you 2 years ,after each child born, to get off of it and after that you are on your own, also it is mandatory that you work at least 20 hours a week. Or you can have a choice of having all of your schooling paid for, if you don't want to work the 20 hours. But if you're not working, then you can't survive. I know of some women that are having the schooling paid for by welfare and then getting student loans just to live on. They will give you about $200.00 a month if you have one child and about 240.00 if you have 2. Plus you get $200.00 in food. I don't know about you, but that is not enough to support a family. And you will only get that money if you opt for the no school option. Help with rent- you will only get help if you are in a shelter for abused women. unless there is some kind of disability . So these women on welfare are hard up. They are not living large and sitting back eating ding-dongs. Also, if there man decides he doesn't want to pay child support, then they don't even have enough to by the kids new school clothes at a garage sale. Luckily, when the winter months come, the electric and gas companies do offer some kind of assistance in paying the bill. But I still know of women and their children that got a junky kerosene heater just to have heat in the winter. These are not low life women- the ex-jw women I know have had it hard! They had to put up with cheating men just because they didn't want to have all of the financial problems anymore. But they have a secret plan, of going to school and not saying anything untill they finish. Then when they finish school they will be rid of their cheating spouses. See- women aren't that dumb after all.