RESEARCH ON GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY OF THE ELDERLY

Abstract

In recent years, the challenge of population aging to economic growth has aroused widespread concern in the society, and the work of the elderly poor to get out of poverty has become a hard bone in China's fight against poverty. Poverty in old age has become an urgent problem to be solved under the background of the times, and China has gradually shown the trend of feminization of old age. Based on the theory of feasible ability poverty, the theory of vulnerability and the cultural foundation of patriarchy, this paper selects the data of the 2018 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to measure poverty in old age from a multi-dimensional perspective and explores the relationship between gender and the dimension of poverty in old age. Studies have shown that female elderly groups are less prone to economic poverty than men, but are more likely to fall into health poverty and mental poverty. Based on the results of the research, corresponding reform suggestions are put forward, with a view to providing a basis for the precise management of poverty in the elderly