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Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL

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Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life

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Systematic sex and age disaggregation of data has only happened over the past two decades, and gender analysis of quality of life patterns is even more recent. The dearth of analysis on the combined effects of gender and lifespan on quality of life is thus hardly surprising. The relationship between sex, gendered patterns of socialization, age, cohort, generation, geographic location, race and culture in contributing to both objective and subjective dimensions of quality of life is complex and often incongruous. This volume aims to fill the gap in understanding of the complex nexus between sex, gender, lifespan and culture as they impact on both objective and subjective dimensions of quality of life, using examples of research from fourteen regions of the world.

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  1. Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus, Pigdons Rd 75, Waurn Ponds 3217, 3220, Geelong, VIC, Australia

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Eckermann, E. (2014). Gender, Lifespan, Cultural Context and QOL. In: Eckermann, E. (eds) Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7829-0_1

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