Gender, Social Change, and Living Arrangements Among Older Egyptians During the 1990s |
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| Authors: | Kathryn M Yount Zeinab Khadr |
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| Institution: | (1) Hubert Department of Global Health, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road NE, Room 724, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA;(2) Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA;(3) Social Research Center, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt;(4) Cairo University, Giza, Egypt |
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| Abstract: | We compare older Egyptian women’s and men’s propensities to live with unmarried children only, any ever-married children,
and alone, and we assess “kin-keeping” versus “modernization” hypotheses about the effects of social change on living arrangements
during 1988–2000. Socioeconomic differences among women and men accounted for much of their crude differences in living arrangements
during the period. Propensities to live with any ever-married children declined, and propensities to live alone or with unmarried
children only rose. Compared to men, women continued to live more often with any ever-married children and less often with
unmarried children only, and the 1988 gender gap in solitary residence disappeared by 2000. Increasing coresidential demands
from unmarried dependent children, less frequent coresidential support from ever-married children, and rapidly increasing
rates of solitary living especially among older men suggest emerging needs for non-coresidential instrumental support, especially
among older Egyptians who are economically disadvantaged.
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| Keywords: | Egypt Gender Living arrangements Social change |
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