This proposal for a Multidimensional Poverty Index with a focus on women seeks to call attention to the need to have information in surveys that allows poverty to be measured with a gender perspective.

The incidence of multidimensional poverty among women is higher in rural areas and, in addition, rural women experience a greater intensity of poverty. In El Salvador, for example, 91.3% of rural women are multidimensional poor and simultaneously experience 58% of deprivations.

In terms of adjusted incidence, MPI or M0, for women, the value for the 10 countries under study is 0.13, but is accentuated in rural areas, reaching a maximum of 0.53 for El Salvador due to the proportion of multidimensional poor women and the high proportion of deprivations they face simultaneously.

The indicators that contribute most to the MPI with a focus on women are Unfavourable economic activity status, No internet access and No housing services.

Of the 10 countries that form part of the analysis of multidimensional poverty presented in this document, in 5 the feminization of multidimensional poverty with a focus on women is greater than that of income poverty.