Poverty is a state of life, affecting all of humanity. Poverty is most commonly defined by economic standards, based on income levels and access to basic human necessities, such as food, water, and shelter. Poverty is often described with a scale, ranging from extreme to moderate levels. Its really hard to be poor and living on be streets because you don't what your gonna eat the next day and where your gonna sleep.
Men, because men are usually put into the labor aspect of the economy. Females aren't usually the ones to work in labor also children and elderly people cannot work to a certain extent and mostly not in labor.