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- Title
Economic Well-being of the Aged in Rural Tamil Nadu: A Study of Gender Difference with Reference to Madurai District.
- Authors
Hariharan, R.; Malathi, N.
- Abstract
The elderly in the rural areas are suffering due separation or loneliness resulted through urbanization and emergence or increase of nuclear families. The elderly are differing from not only in their socio-demographic, economic and health characteristics but also differ by their gender roles in various aspects of life. This paper explores the gender differentials of the rural aged population in their socio-demographic, economic and health characteristics in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu. The data, collected from 160 aged persons in four villages of Madurai district selected through a disproportionate stratified random based on the number of households reveal that most of the rural male aged were older and married, while most female aged were old and widowed. Male aged mostly lived with their spouses and female aged with their children. Marital status was found to be the most positive significant variable to an increase in economic well-being of the rural aged, and living arrangement found to be negative significant one.
- Subjects
TAMIL Nadu (India); MADURAI (India); INDIA; GENDER differences (Sociology); URBANIZATION; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
- Publication
Language in India, 2011, Vol 11, Issue 11, p406
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article