Women and Aging

Reports

• Social Security: Vital to Retirement Security for 35 Million Women and Men (Institute for Women's Policy Research; 2010)
• Strengthening Social Security for Vulnerable Groups (NASI; 2009)
• AGEenda for Action: Building a Movement for Elder Women’s Advocacy (The Women's Foundation of California; 2008)
• Social Security is Important to Women (SSA; 2008)
• Single Women’s Retirement Income Falls Short of the Elder Economic Security Standard Index (WOW)
• What Women Need to Know About Retirement (WISER)
• Economic Security for Women Across All Generations (Wider Opportunities for Women)
• The Gender Impact of Alternative Social Security Policies (Michigan Retirement Research Center; 2006)

Journal Articles

• Women's Retirement Expectations: How Stable Are They? (Wong and Hardy; The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; 2009)
• Transitions Among Disability Levels or Death in African American and White Older Women ((Thorpe, Weiss, Xue, and Fried; The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences; 2009)
• The Income and Wealth Packages of Older Women in Cross-National Perspective (Gornick, Sierminska, and Smeeding; The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences; 2009)
• The Relationship Between Cognitive Function and Physical Performance in Older Women: Results From the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (Atkinson et. al.; The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences; 2009)
• Adult Daughters and Aging Mothers: The Role of Guilt in the Experience of Caregiver Burden (Gonyea, Paris, and de Saxe Zerden; Aging and Mental Health; 2008)
• Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap in Late Life Economic Security (Gonyea; NASW News: Aging Section Connection; 2008
• The Extent and Frequency of Abuse in the Lives of Older Women and Their Relationship With Health Outcomes (Fisher and Regan; The Gerontologist; 2006)

Congressional Records

• Retirement Security: Women Face Challenges in Ensuring Financial Security in Retirement (Senate Aging Committee; 2007)

Books

• Market Friendly or Family Friendly: The State and Gender Inequality in Old Age (Harrington Meyer and Herd; 2007)

Websites

• OWL: The Older Women's League
• National Program on Women and Aging (Heller School for Social Policy and Management)
• WISER: Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement
• Wider Opportunities for Women
• Women and Long Term Care (AARP)
• Diabetes and Depression in Older Women-podcast (CDC)