“…The result points out eliminating unemployment might be a more effective method than increasing primary school education to reduce female poverty in European countries. This positive relationship between female poverty and the unemployment rate for EU-27 and Czech Republic, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Southern Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, is also consistent with previous studies like Ruspini (1998), Polin and Michele (2012), Barcena-Martin and Moro-Egido (2013), Kiaušiene (2015), Jianu (2019) and Bingöl and Ayhan (2020). According to these studies and ours, unemployment is one of the major causes of poverty and social exclusion.…”