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        <description>Population and Health InfoShare : Newest 15 Documents by Gender And Aging In SE Asia And The Developing World. Sharing Knowledge to Improve Public Health Worldwide</description>
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            <title>Gender and Well-Being of Older Persons in Cambodia</title>
            <link>http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs.html?ID=5643</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This study represents the first systematic attempt to assess the relation between gender and the well-being of older persons in Cambodia, with reference to health, demographic, social support and economic indicators. The context is one in which the numerical dominance of women among the older age population is unusually pronounced due to a past history of civil unrest and violence. Our results, based primarily on the 2004 Survey of Elderly in Cambodia (SEC), reveal both differences and similarities between the sexes. Elderly women are far less likely than men to have a surviving spouse or to be literate, although even for men educational levels are quite low. Women report worse self-assessed health and more health symptoms and physical functioning problems than men but have higher survival rates. Seeing and hearing problems are reported fairly equally. Older men and women differ little in terms of social contact with and material support from children and very few appear deserted by their family. Although men are more likely than women to have work or pension income, there is little gender difference in a number of indicators of material well being including housing quality, household possessions, and self assessed economic situation. Although a conclusive advantage or disadvantage is not evident for any one sex across most dimensions, there are considerable variations in characteristics and circumstances. Recognition of these variations can be useful for understanding the unique needs of men and women in a country in which many older people have lived difficult lives, having faced harsh circumstances related to war and poverty.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:31:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Gender and Ageing in Thailand: A Situation Analysis of Older Women and Men</title>
            <link>http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs.html?ID=5642</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gender equity and population aging are two very prominent issues in discussions related to social and economic development. Assessments of the interaction of gender and aging need to move beyond assumptions of universal disadvantage among older women and explore the experiences of both older men and women in specific social and temporal contexts. The present study contributes to such an approach by comparing the situations of older women and men in contemporary Thailand. We draw heavily on the most recent representative national survey of older persons conducted in 2007 by the National Statistical Office. Thus although there have been several previous studies of gender and aging in Thailand, our study brings the situation up to date and where appropriate, calls attention to changes that may have taken place. We find similarities in the situation of older men and women on many dimensions are often more dominant than clear contrasts.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:28:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Gender and Intergenerational Change in Vietnam</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6761_ROA.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Although women and the elderly are assumed to be disadvantaged in much of the world, systematic empirical studies of gender differences in well-being among the elderly are rare. This article examines gender differences in elderly support and socioeconomic well-being in Vietnam using census and survey data. Sources of support examined include work, non-familial support, and especially familial support including living arrangements. The authors consider the gender of the support recipient and provider. Substantial regional differences in the patriarchal/patrilineal family system, manifested in the wide regional variation in coresidence with married sons rather than daughters, make Vietnam a particularly interesting context for the study. The receipt of intergenerational transfers shows little variation across gender once the mediating effect of marital status differences is controlled. Gender differences in economic well-being, as measured by household wealth and self-perceptions of economic satisfaction, are modest, especially when marital status and age are controlled.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:01:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Older Women in Thailand: Are They Really Worse Off Than the Men?</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6760_Chap07_Thailand.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There has been an increasing trend among international organizations and forums to advocate “the integration of a gender perspective into all policies, programs and legislation” dealing with aging. In the case of Thailand this would appear to make only limited sense.  On many dimensions of well-being during old age, gender is unlikely to be a particularly sensitive marker of vulnerability and it would seem unwise to elevate gender above all other markers, particularly poor economic status that can and does characterize both elderly Thai women and men in large numbers. Moreover, to the extent gender is incorporated in policies targeting the older population in Thailand, both government and non-governmental organizations would do well to consider the gender specific needs of both sexes rather than assuming only older women merit attention.  Only in these ways will an effective and just set of policies emerge to serve the rapidly increasing numbers of Thai elders.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:51:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Gender and Well-Being among the Elderly: Evidence from Thailand</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Researchers and international organisations frequently suggest that older women are disadvantaged in comparison to older men.  This analysis of census and survey data from Thailand, however, indicates a far more complex association between gender and various aspects of ageing.  Through an examination of various demographic, economic, psychosocial and health variables, it is found that older Thai women do face certain disadvantages compared to their male counterparts, including lower education and literacy, far higher levels of widowhood and living alone, and a lower likelihood of receiving formal retirement benefits.  Older Thai men, however, also face relative disadvantages, including worse survivorship, a lower likelihood of receiving money from adult children, a greater probability of debt and other financial problems, and lower satisfaction with their financial situation.  Many other demographic, psychosocial and economic measures are not significantly associated with gender.  Our analysis provides some support for a life course perspective, that relates gender differences in old age to differences in earlier life experiences, roles and reward structures, particularly access to retirement pensions and the type of support older men and women provide to their co-resident children.  Marital status often mediates gender differences in well-being among older people.  The study concludes with research and policy recommendations.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:08:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Gender differences in economic support and well-being of older Asians</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6758_JCCG19_30_.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This report provides a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in economic support and well-being in eight countries in Southern and Eastern Asia (Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, and Taiwan).  We examine multiple economic indicators, including sources of income, receipt of financial and material support, income levels, ownership of assets, and subjective well-being.  Results show substantial variation in gender differences across indicators and provide an important qualification to widely held views concerning the globally disadvantaged position of older women.  Whereas men tend to report higher levels of income than women, there is generally little gender difference in housing characteristics, asset ownership, or reports of subjective economic well-being.  Unmarried women are economically advantaged compared to unmarried men in some respects, in part because they are more likely to be embedded in multigenerational households and receive both direct and indirect forms of support from family members.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:03:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Gender and Aging in the Developing World: Where Are the Men?</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6757_Gender_and_Aging_in_the_Developing_World.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In recent years, both population aging and gender issues gained prominence in international forums concerned with population. It is frequently asserted or implied that older women are universally more vulnerable to social, economic, and health disadvantages than older men. The most significant manifestation of this exclusive concern with women when considering gender and aging is the Plan of Action emanating from the Second World Assembly on Aging in 2002. The assumed relative disadvantage of elderly women is commonly attributed to gender differences in earlier life experiences. But are older women truly disadvantaged globally on all or most essential aspects of well-being? We call into question the validity of this assumption and the wisdom and equity of a virtually exclusive emphasis on the needs of women when building gender concerns into policies and programs related to aging.  A more balanced perspective that recognizes gender as a potential, but not necessarily central, marker of vulnerability for different dimensions of well-being in specific settings and times, and that allows for male as well as female disadvantage, would serve the current and future elderly generations far better.]]></description>
            <author>j_knodel@yahoo.com (Gender and Aging in SE Asia and the Developing World)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
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