The survivor's pension is very important in many countries' social security, which generally belongs to old-age security. It is founded to provide and fulfill the basic needs of people who lost their family members. Generally, female, especially old female, are the mainly receiver of this kind of pension because female have the longer life expectancy than male. This kind of benefit is also exist in China, but unfortunately, not in social security system, and female can only get a very little slip of security pie, the older, theworse. So that's why we must take gender equality into account, and enhance this equality in China's social old-age security system. And that is really helpful to meet the basic family needs and improve the security degree of old female.
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