By Theresa W. Devasahayam
ISBN-10: 9814517976
ISBN-13: 9789814517973
This ebook examines universal issues with regards to gender and growing old in nations in Southeast Asia. Derived from quantitative or qualitative equipment of knowledge assortment and research, the chapters exhibit how getting older has turn into tempered by means of globalization, cultural values, relatives constructions, women's emancipation and empowerment, social networks, govt regulations, and faith. The chapters are involved essentially with the next questions concerning gender and growing old: (a) how do men and women adventure outdated age? (b) do men and women have diversified technique of coping financially and socially of their previous age? (c) does having engaged in salary paintings for longer classes of time function a bonus to older males not like older girls? (d) does a woman's basic position as caregiver serve to drawback her in outdated age? (e) what forms of identities have older men and women developed for themselves? (f) do men and women arrange for ageing another way and has this practise been mediated by way of academic degrees? (g) does having a better point of schooling make a distinction to how one stories growing old? (h) how does category form the best way men and women cope in outdated age? and (i) what does it suggest to be a 'single' older one that has both misplaced a wife via dying or hasn't ever been married? as the ebook employs a cross-country research, readers achieve an figuring out of latest emergent traits not just in all the nations but in addition in Southeast Asia as a complete.
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In this case, “the interplay between age and gender has frequently been characterized as a double jeopardy. The combination of sexism and ageism supposedly makes women’s ageing more problematic than men’s” (Krekula 2007, p. 161). While undoubtedly women have their share of vulnerabilities in old age as discussed earlier in this chapter, these vulnerabilities need to be assessed within the context of globalization, Growing Old in Southeast Asia: What Do We Know about Gender? 21 capitalism, and wage work such that the capitalist workplace tends to generate inequality between the sexes rather than emphasize equality which would have been the case if indigenous gender ideologies were operating.
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