ABSTRACT

This paper was to examine the poverty of the elderly women inKorea from the gender sensitive and social exclusion perspectives.A set of survey data, using binomial logistic regression model, wasanalyzed for this purpose. Independent variable was gender, whiledependent variable was the binominal condition of exclusion orinclusion (non-exclusion). Control variables were demographiccharacteristics (i.e., age, marital status, disabled status, chronicdisease), social characteristics of subjective economic level in thefuture, and their residential area. Seven types of exclusion (labormarket exclusion, exclusion from education, institutional exclusion,exclusion form housing, cultural exclusion, exclusion from socialnetwork, economic exclusion) were fixed in the analyses. Theconcise findings of the analyses were that exclusion from educationas well as exclusion from social network were mainly influencedby gender. However, the other social exclusions did not show anysignificant effect on it.