Description :

Crises such as pandemics or economic downturns pull back the veil on gender and age relations. The COVID-19 pandemic is no different except that some gender and age inequities had been more deeply veiled, and thus invisible.

In this International Women’s Day talk, Dr. Susan McDaniel weaves together findings from her research to reveal aspects of women’s lives as they age in times of multiple crises. She has found how women’s lives are affected differently by COVID depending on their cohort and positioning in generations. Her research on mid-life Canadians and Americans as they aged during the Great Recession of 2008 sheds light on how women’s lives differentially bruised by the economic crisis were affected differently by COVID. Her research on migration and the work of care reveals how inequities among women sowed the seeds of horror in long-term care homes during the pandemic.

All the research presented at this session will take a life course peep at women’s lives, how we live over time, with others, and how events accumulate for good or bad. We will glimpse how lives can be upended by sudden events or worsened by life-long disadvantage. We will see the resiliency of women and how vital it is to understand women’s lives as they age to build effective policies and successful societies.

Dr. Susan McDaniel is Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Research Affiliate Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, University of Victoria.

Register by:  Tuesday, Mar. 5th

Affiliation(s) obligatoire(s) :

• TALK Annual Membership

Disponibles : 36/50

Prix : 15,00 $ Taxes exonérées

Âge requis : 50+ au jour de l'activité

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