Market Friendly or Family Friendly?: The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age by Madonna Harrington Meyer, Pamela Herd

Market Friendly or Family Friendly?: The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age

American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology (Paperback)

Madonna Harrington Meyer, Pamela Herd

227 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender politics
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Poverty among the elderly is sharply gendered--women over sixty-five are twice as likely as men to live below the poverty line. Older women receive smaller Social Security payments and are less likely to have private pensions. They are twice as li...

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