Gender and old-age pension protection in Asia

CPC members, Dr Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham, have published a blog post for Pension Watch, examining the gender implications of the design and implementation of old age pension protection systems, taking into account women's increasingly diverse life courses in the context of changing demographic and socio-economic patterns in Asia, such as population ageing and women's participation in the informal labour market.

Providing old-age social protection for women is a major policy challenge, as women's working lives tend to be more diverse than men's, meaning that, across the world, women are more likely than men to experience poverty in old age.

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Posted 06/12/2013 10:33