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    "We Know What We Need!" South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change Adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal are struggling to protect their lives, homes, assets and livelihoods from weather-related hazards caused by climate change. Nevertheless, women are not passive victims of climate change. This report presents field research conducted in the Ganga river basin in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, with poor women in rural areas.
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    Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    How are women and men dealing with the 'feminisation' of the global labour force in the face of the widespread prevalence of male 'breadwinner' ideologies and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings?
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    Women's Status, Rights and Interests in Land Diversion

    2005
    Previously in China, all land was controlled by the communes. Over the past twenty years, with the break up of the communes, new land tenure arrangements have given greater control over land to individual households.
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    Impact of the Retirement Age on the Sexual Differences in Pensions among China's Urban Employees

    Institute of Population and Development, Nankai University, 2004
    Currently in China the legal age of retirement for professionals and civil servants is 60 for men, and 55 for women, and for labourers and factory workers, 55 for men, and 50 for women. Pensions are based on various criteria including education, professional rank, and number of years worked. This system means women's pensions are in general lower than men's.
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    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007
    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean brings to the fore two key drivers in the structural pattern of inequality between women and men: first, political participation and gender parity in decision-making processes at all levels, and, second, women's contribution to the economy and social protection, especially in relation to unpaid work.
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    Older Women's Rights to Support and Judicial Protection in China

    BRIDGE, 2007
    According to the?One-off Sample Survey on the Situation of Older People in Urban and Rural China? conducted in 2000, 56.9% of older urban women and 76.8% of older rural women would prefer their children to provide care and support to them. In reality, only about one third of income of elderly people comes from their children, 33% in urban areas, and 37% in rural areas.
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    Living Situation of Widowed Old Women----In-depth Interview and Analysis

    BRIDGE, 2007
    In 2000, among the urban population over 60, there are three times as many widowed women as men. This study visited 12 widowed old women and 6 widowed middle age women living in Beijing. Most interviewees have worked during their lives, but only 5 of them have a regular pension, and one receives a ?basic living grant? for low income people.
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    Economic Situation of Old Women and the Factors Analysis

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Gender and urban-rural inequalities persist in China. Older women's monthly income is about 490 RMB for urban women, and 124 Yuan for rural women (about 64 and 16 USD respectively). This stands at 51.7? and 68.3? of older men's income levels in urban and rural areas. Pension, family support and income of own labor make up roughly equal parts of older men's resources.
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    The Impact of Social Transition on Vulnerability of Old Women

    BRIDGE, 2007
    China's traditional model of family care for elders is being shaken by population aging and social change. As competition in the labour market becomes intense, and mobility for work increases, it is becoming more difficult for children to take care of the elderly. In 2000, 22.8% of people over 65 years lived separately from their children. In some areas the figure reaches 80%.
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    Gender, Health and Ageing

    World Health Organization, 2003
    The diseases which afflict older men and women are the same - but rates, trends, and types of these differ between women and men. Conditions that account for the majority of mortality and morbidity among older people stem from experiences and behaviours at younger ages, such as smoking, alcohol abuse, infectious disease, dangerous work conditions, violence and poor health care.

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