"If you are here, you've already decided," said a 24-year-old unemployed woman who would not give her name.

But such success will be harder to come by now, as the number of unemployed women started rising much faster last year.

The parents, most of them unemployed women, and their children go to school and have breakfast together.

At the time the majority of the volunteers were unemployed married women.

A total of about 120 unemployed women graduated from this program in 2010.

"How can an unemployed woman get to a job interview on time if she can't read the bus schedule?"

The measure would provide for $10 million to be spent over three years to train unemployed women.

Family life is one of the reasons why there are more unemployed women than men.

With one in every 10 men unemployed, more women are finding themselves the main family earners.