Health Sciences 4721A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security
5 Nov 2016
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Case studies: poverty and health, women and retirement incoe, poverty & nutrition. Hardly recognizes lower earnings for women: cost of unpaid work, multiple job changes that men and women have experienced in the last ten years. Pension systems offer social welfare to the poor via: oas & gis do little to relieve poverty. To successfully prevent poverty public or private pensions need to reflect actual lives of canadaians. Women participiate in the labour market differently then men: work fewer hours lower paying jobs swomen responsible for childbirth child rearing and unpaid domestic work. Disadvantages in pension system that is tied to labour market earnings. Women longer life expectencies married women outlivings their husbands and losing the finanically protective effect of being part of the couple. 80% of single indiviutals who receives the guareteed income supplement are women indicatroring their lack of outside income.
