Older Women Struggle to Make Ends Meet

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15. This is a Feminist forum.

Part of our purpose is to focus on the gender aspects of all social ills.

There is no need to roll back the clock, but there is a crying need to alleviate poverty in a sector that is suffering *now* from the effects of institutional sexism from decades ago. Women who are existing in poverty effect the economy, her spending power is reduced and this has effects on the rest of the economic structure (not to mention her impoverished life of suffering). More money needs to be put into her hands now, not decades from now. The trend is for the safety net being reduced, not expanded. We can control that by identifying the problem and directing awareness and activism there.