From A Gender Perspective The Rural Pension Problem

China’s sixth census data in2010showes that: more than65years of age in the country has reached119million, accounting for8.87%of the national total. China is much higher than7%of the"red line". The rapid development of China’s population aging makesthe old problem highlighted, at the same time, it brings greatchallenges to China’s economic and social development. In the rapiddevelopment of urbanization, a large number of rural young adultsoutflow to urban, which makes the problem of empty-nest families inrural areas. Academia has done some research on this issue. Thisarticle explores the rural old-age problems from a gender perspective,and aims to analyze the different gender needs for the elderly and thedifferent effects of different gender in caring for the elderly.This paper uses questionnaires, personal interviews, anddocumentary research as the main research methods, and also usesthe gender theory, social capital theory, hierarchy of needs theory,active aging theory. After the typical study of Zhang Wo Village,Dong ying City, the paper thinks that: first of all, the old people ofdifferent genders have similars. With the gradual deterioration of thebody of the elderly, the elderly has psychological barriers; With theelderly family status decline, their participation in social activities issignificantly reduced; rural elderly is more comfortable with atraditional family pension way, and they exclude Welfare Institute.However, the old people of different gender have difference: womenolder people have high incidence of chronic diseases, but their lifeexpectancy is longer; despite the slightly higher degree of self-careof the elderly men, the more positive attitude towards aging, but their memory are not as good as the female elderly; affected by thetraditional concept of family status of elderly women than elderlymen, women have less free time to participate in social activities,and they are more likely involved into poverty. Secondly, in the careof elderly households, there are also gender differences: thedaughter-in-law is the mainstay of care for their elderly parents; theson dose not bear the heavy care tasks, but they are economic pillarsand family care decision makers; the daughter in the family care forthe elderly bear the heavy responsibility after the daughter-in-law,son-in-law also assumes the role of auxiliary daughter care for theelderly. In this paper, the analysis of the similarities and differencesof different gender elderly, and families to care for the elderly genderdifferences manifested in the new situation the following measuresto deal with the problems of the rural sense of security: to carry outhome care; to strengthen policy institution building; to promoteactive aging; to form interest groups for the elderly rich old age.