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2.  Survey of old women in Levice, Slovakia -
International Women’s Day- Top Five Older
Women’s Issues
 In honour of International Women’s Day, Slovak
students involved in the eTwinning project „Forum of
Generations @ School“, went to the downtown of
Levice to meet older women on 8th March 2012.
Students congratulated these women with
International Women´s Day and did a short survey
about older women´s issues. We bring you the top
five concerns for older women. We met 25 women
and asked them 5 questions concerning top 5
women´s issues. Here are the results of our survey:

4.  1. Women and Poverty
 The feminization of poverty occurs in all countries, as mass
poverty in many countries. The risk of falling into poverty is
greater for women than for men, particularly in old age
where social security is based on the principle of
continuous remunerated employment. Adequate safety
nets must be established and state-based and community
based support systems implemented in order to ensure
that men and women are on equal footing. All 25 women
agreed that there are more old women than old men
suffering of poverty, because their retirement rents are
much Loir then men´s. Especially old women who are
widowers have really difficult situation, many times, TIR
children have to hepl them with money a nd i tis really
sad.

6.  2. Education and Training of Women

The low educational level of older women challenges their
full participation in the public and political life of the
country. The goal of equal access to education must be
advanced by taking measures to eliminate discrimination
in education at all levels on the basis of gender, race,
language, religion, national origin, age or disability, or any
other form of discrimination, and as appropriate, consider
establishing procedures to address grievances. We asked
the old women if they have the ambition to study and
educate themselves now when they are retired. From 25
asked women 20 said that the read books, go to libraries,
but they do not feel any deficite in education. One of
these women attend University of Third age and 4 went to
a PC course organized by secondary schools and a
townhall.

8.  3. Women and Health

Postmenopausal conditions and diseases tend to be neglected
in research, academic studies, public policy, and service
provision. While women tend to outlive men in terms of life
expectancy women’s quality of life is in danger of being
compromised without specific understanding of the older
women’s physical, functional and mental health needs. Health
care service provision must be affordable, appropriate and
accessible especially for those who live in rural areas. The inter-
relationship of ageing and disability among all women needs
particular attention. The long-term health prospects of women
are influenced by changes at menopause, which, in
combination with lifelong conditions, poor nutrition and lack of
physical activity, may increase the risk of disabilities. The old
ladies on the question if they had any health problems recently
answered they did. Half of the asked women had an operation
and all of them regularly see doctors. They have problems with
the heart, breathing and back and women´s diseases.

10.  4. Violence Against Women

Older women are particularly vulnerable to
physical, sexual, and psychological harm because of
their economic and physical dependency both
within the family and in society in general. This abuse
often remains hidden and is therefore ignored.
Improved gender-disaggregated and age-specific
data on victims and perpetrators of all forms of
violence against women of all ages must be
developed. Our old women respondents said they
did not have any problems with home violence but
half of them declared they know women who suffer
or suffered of home violence

13.  5. Human Rights of Women

The World Conference on Human Rights (1993) reaffirmed
that the human rights of women throughout the life cycle
are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal
human rights. The gap between the existence of legal
rights and their effective enjoyment derives from a lack of
commitment by governments to promoting and
protecting those rights and the failure of governments to
inform women and men alike about them. All of the
women said that they thought the women´s rights are not
kept in the world. There are differences between men and
women of all ages, not only at work, the job positions but
also in political life and many other scenes