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& Ageing in Thailand: Situation Analysis of Older Women & Men
Knodel, John E., and Napaporn Chayovan. 2008. "Gender and Ageing in Thailand: A Situation Analysis of Older Women and Men." PSC Research Report No. 08-664. December 2008.
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. In conformity with the
conventional definition used in most studies of aging and older people in
Thailand (and developing countries generally), we define the older population
as those persons aged 60 and more years.
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