Ageing in a gendered world : women's issues and identities /

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Corporate Author: International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic : INSTRAW, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ageing as a women's issue. International initiatives on ageing / Antony de Bono
  • Women and old-age income security in the United States / Laura Katz Olson
  • Women in the development of the Japanese welfare state / Misa Izuhara
  • Women's pensions and the impact of privatization in Britain / Jay Ginn and Sara Arber
  • Life-cycle income and motherhood: simulations for British women of the 1990s / Hugh Davis, Heather Joshi and Romana Peronaci
  • The effect of disadvantages in early career on later career outcomes: a Canadian case study / Isik Urla Zeytinoglu and Caroline L. Weber
  • Gender-based barriers to career development in Australia / Russell Rimmer
  • Caring women, cared-for women: the discourse of care-giving in Italy / Isabella Paoletti
  • Repeating what you sow? Older women, housing and family dynamics in urban Mexico / Ann Varley and Maribel Blasco
  • Family support systems and older women in sub-Saharan Africa / Irene Zeilinger
  • Older women in transitions in Estonia: continuing care-givers / Silva Tedre and Tiami Tulva
  • Old age, gender and marginality in Peru: development for the elderly / Fiona Clark
  • Caring for the care-givers: challenges for Italian social policy / Giovanni Lamura, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Massimo Mengani
  • Gendered aspects of caring for older persons in Europe: policy data requirements / Tatiana Sikoska
  • Identity, culture and older women / Noeleen O'Beirne
  • Silencing the voices of older women / Rachel Siegel
  • Gendered living environments for the elderly in Turkey and Sweden / E. Olcay Ímamoglu and Vacit Ímamoglu
  • Navigating in unknown waters: Canadian widows negotiating relationships / Deborah K. van den Hoonaard
  • Age, migration, gender and empowerment: older migrant women in Europe / Gail Wilson... [et al.].