by comparison households of couples with or without children in the same region that are headed by women tend to have lower or similar poverty rates compared to those headed by men figure for example in the plurinational state of bolivia households of couples with or without children have a poverty rate of per cent when headed by women considerably less than the per cent poverty rate when headed by men in contrast households of lone mothers with children have a poverty rate of per cent higher than the per cent poverty rate for lone fathers with children their proportion in total households varies from per cent in belize to per cent in haiti they may include de jure femaleheaded households where women do not have a male partner or de facto femaleheaded households where the male partner is temporarily absent and may or may not contribute remittances to the households welfare