Gender Talk: Gender and Ageing

Welcome to the fifth issue of GenderTalk from the NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre’s Gender Hub. Nancy Folbre and colleagues in the 2005 special issue of Feminist Economics – Gender and Ageing noted that the public discussion on ageing, even in developed countries, has focused more on the financial burden that the increasing number of elderly populations will impose on younger generations, while the gendered aspect of this demographic transformation has largely been ignored in the public discourse. In this issue of GenderTalk, we examine population ageing in India from a gendered perspective.