Olmsted, Jennifer - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 53-78
Within Arab societies, a strong patriarchal contract has given elderly women a claim to economic resources, power … patriarchal contract exist, placing women in a vulnerable situation. In the absence of strong state-sponsored social safety nets …, elderly women without male kin or whose kin do not or cannot fulfill this contract are vulnerable to poverty and neglect …