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The Feminization of the Aging Poor
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Elderly women are overrepresented among the aging poor, driven by lower lifetime earnings, uncredited unpaid-care years, and living alone in old age.
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A retirement system built on wage-linked benefits pays less to someone whose working years included years of unpaid care work.
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The pattern is structural, extending the mechanism of Soc 0851 into old age rather than restating it.
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