ELDER CITIZENS AND MINORITY GROUPS

The experience of discrimination faced by Europe’s women, minorities (1), and older people, among other disadvantaged groups, is well recognised. Increasingly women and minorities are being linked by various organisations through cross-cutting gender and ‘race’/ethnicity research and policy initiatives across the EU27. Discrimination and poverty are connected and explain much more about the position of today’s Europe’s minorities, rather than vague notions of the influence of culture, language and religion. We know, for example, that poverty has an age and gender face: poverty among elder women is higher than their male counterparts in 25 EU Member States; and women aged 75 or more have to confront the highest risk of poverty, according to Zaidi