Introduction : gender and aging / Nancy Folbre, Lois B. Shaw and Agneta Stark
1. Warm hands in cold age - on the need of a new world order of care / Agneta Stark
2. Eldercare in the United States : inadequate, inequitable, but not a lost cause / Susan C. Eaton
3. Gender, aging, and the evolving Arab patriarchal contract / Jennifer C. Olmsted
4. Australia's 'other' gender wage gap : baby boomers and compulsory superannuation accounts / Therese Jefferson and Alison Preston
5. Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa / Justine Burns, Malcolm Keswell and Murray Leibbrandt
6. Race, ethnicity, and social security retirement age in the US / Carole A. Green
7. Linking benefits to marital status : race and social security in the US / Madonna Harrington Meyer, Douglas A. Wolf and Christine L. Himes
8. Gender and aging : cross-national contrasts
I. Poverty and income maintenance in old age : a cross-national view of low income older women / Timothy M. Smeeding and Susanna Sandstrom
II. Growing old in the US : gender and income adequacy / Lois B. Shaw and Sunhwa Lee
III. Gender and aging in South Korea / Kyunghee Chung.
