Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1133 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Feminization of the Aging Poor
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The idea
Elderly women are overrepresented among the aging poor, driven by lower lifetime earnings, uncredited unpaid-care years, and living alone in old age.
In practice
A retirement system built on wage-linked benefits pays less to someone whose working years included years of unpaid care work.
Where people slip
The pattern is structural, extending the mechanism of Soc 0851 into old age rather than restating it.
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