Old-Age Poverty

GENEVA—Swiss women turned out by the thousands Friday for a nationwide strike and demonstrations signalling their frustration over deep-rooted inequalities in one of the richest countries in the world. The women skipped work and shunned household responsibil…

Organizers worked for a year preparing for Fridays strike and appeared to have mobilized broad support, attracting trade unions, university staff members, students, church groups and female farmers to the march. Its the beginning of a new movement, Flavia W…

Reverse mortgages -- complex home loans -- are aggressively marketed to elderly people, especially in African-American neighborhoods, using deceptive tactics that offer false promised to "eliminate monthly payments permanently" with "a risk-free way of being …

An engaging wooden canoe seat takes its pride of place behind glass at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Engraved on the canoe seat is a spider and its web, a reference to Anansi, the iconic West African folk figure. Eleven…

opinionBy Tee NgugiTwo years ago, an elderly Kenyan woman, back home from a visit to her children and grandchildren living in a European country, told eager relatives and friends her impressions of that first-time visit. I was curious to hear what she would …

A prisoner of war during the World War Two bombing of Dresden has blasted the BBC for axing free licences for £3.7million over-75s, calling the decision an insult to veterans 'just days after we were being 'patted on the back' over D-Day.  Victor Gregg, 99, …

Megan K. Stack had reported on war in dozens of countries, but it was inside the confines of her own home, she says, that she was radicalized. She quotes Adrienne Rich in the authors note of her raw and unshrinking new memoir Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Wo…

Half a million Australians aged 50 and over lost their homes in the first decade of this century. Shutterstock The number of mature age Australians carrying mortgage debt into retirement is soaring. And on average each mature age Australian with a mortgage de…

Thank you, Helen Zille and Thuli Madonsela. It is wonderful to read thoughtful ideas and this provoked real thinking on my part. I think one finds privilege in every part of society: schools, clubs, governments, among old people and children, but this is …

THE CHIEF of Madhogarh, a picturesque village nestled beneath a 17th-century fortified palace in the heart of Rajasthan, came to Indra Sharma three years ago to ask if she would attend a workshop. Something about the internet, Ms Sharma, a 40-year-old child-c…