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    The gender dimensions of pension systems: policies and constraints for the protection of older women

    UN Women, 2015
    This paper examines the challenges and constraints that pension systems face to be gender equitable and the policy alternatives to address these challenges. It also focuses on pension system rules and how they interact with other social and labour market conditions over women's life courses to reproduce or mitigate gender inequalities in old age. 
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    Mind the gap: HIV and AIDS and older people in Africa

    HelpAge International, 2008
    At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles for younger adults living with HIV, and for orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Sharing of Housework and Childcare in Contemporary Japan

    2008
    How is the division of childcare and housework between Japanese women and men changing?
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    Political and Social Economy of Care: Republic of Korea

    2008
    Since 1990, many East Asian countries have extended and strengthened their welfare states in response to the increased demand for social welfare and to imperatives arising from changes in their countries' social, economic, and demographic structures.
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    Gender Aspects of Social Protection and Pensions in Ageing Europe

    2004
    Gender equality has had only marginal consideration in social security reforms in Europe during the last decade despite the fact that they are an important tool for achieving gender equality and women and men are affected differently by social security systems.
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    Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

    BRIDGE, 2008
    What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Gender and Ageing Briefs

    HelpAge International, 2002
    Aimed at practitioners and policy makers, these briefs cover six key issues in ageing, gender and development:?gender in an ageing world;?age, gender and HIV/AIDS;?participation for older men and women;?humanitarian crises: hearing and understanding older people's gender needs;?violence and older people: the gendered dimension; and
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    The Gender Implications of Pension Reforms. General Remarks and Evidence from Selected Countries

    2006
    Globally, women make up the majority of older people, as well as the majority of the elderly living in poverty. Despite these facts, and despite international and national commitments to gender mainstreaming in all policy fields, concerns about gender equality have been largely absent from mainstream pension policy debates, and from mainstream academic research on pension reforms.
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    Caring and Contributing: the Role of Older Women in Multigenerational Households in the HIV/AIDS Era

    Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2007
    Older women are much more likely to be affected by, rather than infected with, HIV and AIDS. They are often the primary caretakers of the sick, of the children of the sick, and of children who have been orphaned due to AIDS. They may also help pay for medical treatments, transportation and school fees for children and grandchildren, as well as household subsistence needs.

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