Proposed is a cathode for a secondary battery, which includes a cathode collector and a cathode mixture layer on the cathode collector, includes: a coating section at which the cathode mixture layer is formed with a uniform thickness; a non-coating section that is disposed on at least one edge of the coating section on the cathode collector and at which the cathode mixture layer is not formed; and a cushioning section at which the cathode mixture layer is formed with a thickness smaller than a thickness of the coating section at a location between the coating section and the non-coating section.