Janis was a young mother in her late 20s when she and her husband divorced, forcing her to live on her sole income as a part time minimum wage worker. janis represents:

If Janis was a young mother in her late 20s when she and her husband divorced, forcing her to live on her sole income as a part time minimum wage worker. She will represent: the feminization of poverty

The feminization of poverty represent a disproportionate condition where most of the poor workers in a specific region is overwhelmingly represented by women (most noticeable in a  third world country)