Gender and ageing
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Gender and ageing
- Elder poverty in an ageing world: conditions of social vulnerability and low income for women in rich and middle‐income nations
- ( T. Smeeding;Q. Gao;P. Saunders;C. Wing / Luxembourg Income Study , 2008)
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In most rich countries, poverty among younger pensioners (under age 70) is no longer a major policy problem, but women typically constitute two-thirds to three-quarters or more of the elderly poor ...
- Women, ageing and health: a framework for action
- ( World Health Organization , 2007)
- This report summarises the evidence about women, ageing and health from a gender perspective and provides a framework for developing action plans to improve the health and well-being of ageing women. ...
- Committed to caring: older women and HIV & AIDS in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam
- ( D. Orbach / HelpAge International , 2007)
- In numerous Asian countries, many older people assume multiple responsibilities in caring for relatives living with HIV/AIDS. Despite their burden, older carers remain neglected within the response to...
- On the agenda: older migrant women: facts, figures, personal stories : an inventory in five EU Countries
- ( AGE+ , 2005)
- This reports summarises key findings on the situation of older migrant women in the five participating countires of the AGE+ project - the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy.<...
- Realizing decent work for older women workers
- ( Older Workers , 2000)
- Paper aims to identify issues and contribute to the debate by governments, employers and trade unions, on legislative and policy measures necessary to address economic and social concerns raised by an...
- Social security reform and women’s pensions
- ( A. Cox Edwards / Gendernet, World Bank , 2001)
- Change in the demographic composition of the population of Chile will likely exhaust traditional support systems of the elderly, and increase the relative importance of life-time savings, including so...
- Large cash transfers to the elderly in South Africa
- ( A. Case; A. Deaton / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 1996)
- This paper critically examines the social pension system for the elderly in South Africa. The paper explores the impact of this cash transfer on allocation for food, schooling, transfers and savings....
- The future of retirement: the new old age – a gender perspective
- ( S. Harper;G. Leeson / HSBC Global Forum on Ageing and Retirement , 2008)
- HSBC interviewed 21,000 men and women aged between 40 and 79 in 21 mature and transitional countries and territories around the world. The men and women surveyed in this report revealed that they have...
- Sliding into poverty? cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age
- ( J. M. Williamson; T. M. Smeeding / Center for Retirement Research, Boston College , 2004)
- This article examines the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. The study is a cross-national comparison of five OECD countries (...
- Grandmothers and granddaughters: old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa
- ( E. Duflo / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2000)
- This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African soc...
- Forgotten families: older people as carers of orphans and vulnerable children
- ( HelpAge International , 2003)
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This report shows that - provided appropriate support is available - older people and orphans and vulnerable children can overcome some of the challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The case stu...
- Pension coverage and informal sector workers: international experiences
- ( Y. Hu;F. Stewart / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2009)
- Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangeme...
- The gender implications of pension reforms. General remarks and evidence from selected countries
- ( S. Steinhilber / United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development , 2005)
- This paper critically analyses the gender dimensions of pension schemes, drawing detailed examples from pension reform schemes in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The paper provides the analy...
