Women, Old Age and Precarity

12^th March 2012

On the occasion of international women's day and as part of the European Year of Active Ageing, Eurostat published a study on 8th March on the share of women in the population aged 65 and over. There are nearly 40% more women in this age group than men, a figure that rises to around 50% in the Baltic States. Moreover, more women than men are threatened by poverty and social exclusion, bearing witness to the progress that still has to be made. Finally the study shows that the higher the level of education the less differences there are between men and women in terms of employment rates.

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