وهناك حاجة خاصة إليها بغية التخفيف من حدة الفقر: وذلك لتحديد ما إذا كان التمييز تسبب في إفقار المرأة أو ما إذا كان ثمة تمييز ضدها لأنها فقيرة.
They were particularly needed for the purpose of poverty alleviation: to determine whether women had been made poor because of discrimination, or whether they had been discriminated against because they were poor.