There was one conservative scholar back in the 1960s that said it very simply:
“If you are a young woman and you want to greatly increase your odds of being poor for the rest of your life all you need to do is be a single mom.”
The problem with that is, the various welfare benefits available to single moms give many of them a better standard of living than they could have with most lower paying jobs. And, of course, they need government paid child care should they actually take a job.