These old women are talking about their life.
Old women, it has been consistently demonstrated, are disadvantaged in a
variety of ways in relation to old men. They are poorer, older, and
sicker; they have less adequate housing and less access to private
transport; they are more likely to experience widowhood, severe
disability, and institutionalization. Taking "the problem of old women"
as its starting point, this article argues for a less phallocentric
analysis of women in old age, which is less reliant on men as a
relational category to define the conditions, experiences, and resources
of older women.
