Gender, Poverty and Old-Age Livelihoods in Urban South India in an Era of Globalisation

Struggles over work take place at home: Women’s decisions, choices and constraints in the Tiruppur textile industry, India

“…Second, the life course is a crucial determinant of women's involvement in such paid work (Pratt and Hanson 1993). Confirming the findings of other studies, women's participation in the paid work force goes up, and then down, with age, and women continue to work well into old age (Rao 2014;Vera-Sanso 2012;Kapadia 2010). What is particularly striking is how many women do work throughout the child bearing and rearing years of their life, and how they manage to juggle their jobs to fit in with social norms, domestic responsibilities and patriarchal controls.…”

Social exclusion of older persons: a scoping review and conceptual framework

“…In general, exclusionary channels appear to be multi-level, implicating not only the micro circumstances of individuals, but also typically meso- or macro-constructing forces (e.g. national employment policies combining with gendered social norms and community and household roles to exclude older women workers—Vera-Sanso 2012 ). These pathways are also multifaceted, impacting on multiple areas of life, e.g.…”

Revisiting the patriarchal bargain: The intergenerational power dynamics of household money management in rural Nepal

“… Chowbey’s (2017) study of South Asian women’s strategies for coping with economic abuse in Britain, India and Pakistan analyzed men’s abuse of power over women, which was ascribed to ‘patriarchal norms such as cultural constructions of money and masculinity’ (p. 466). Vera-Sanso’s work on urban families in Tamil Nadu addressed issues of female labor force participation and filial old-age support, but did not explore the power dynamics between junior and senior women over the use of cash inside the extended household ( Vera-Sanso, 2000 , Vera-Sanso, 2005 , Vera-Sanso, 2012 ).…”