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100			_aKrishnaraj, Maithreyi
245			_aAgeing women in a welfare state: cracks in the Utopia?
260			_c1999
300			_ap.WS75-88
362			_a30 Oct
520			_aIn welfare states in Europe the social security systems have generally incorporated gender biases that adversely affect women's life course destiny that culminates in the `elderly women' syndrome. Some interesting trends are evident in the Netherlands, where although the state has trimmed social security in many ways, its emancipatory policies have been moving in the direction of redressing gender inequalities. In the context of the emerging information on the status of elderly women in India the course of welfare legislation in the Netherlands and the context which prompted it may provide some pointers. - Reproduced
650			_aWomen
650			_aAgeing
650			_aOld age
650			_aElderly
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999			_c42983 _d42983