As you've stated, women's lives are distinctly different from men's. Women suffer from many forms of abuse and violence that men do not, which affects how poverty will affect their lives and create situations of poverty, addictions, etc. Women's life cycles are different in the way, as I mentioned earlier, that women often opt out of the wage economy for a while to raise their children. The whole issue of single parenthood affects women more than it does men. All these things affect poverty, so if you're going to have a poverty reduction strategy that really, systemically, attacks the basis of poverty, then you're going to have to look at it through a gendered lens and take into account the realities of women's lives.
Also, older women, senior women, are more often living in poverty than men, perhaps because of the child-bearing years that took them out of their career trajectory or because they were working at lower-paid, seasonal, part-time positions. So the reality of senior women's lives is a lot different from many senior men. You have to look at that in order to reduce the poverty of senior women, the poverty of single women, the poverty of single-parent women, and of youth, teenage girls.
You have to look at the whole issue of child poverty, which to me was completely misrepresented. Child poverty is women's poverty. Most children live with their mothers or in a family. They aren't out there wandering the streets by themselves, unless the family systems have broken down. That is a whole other ball of wax to be addressed in an anti-poverty strategy and act. I think you really have to take a good, hard look at women's poverty if you want to solve the problem of child poverty.