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Gender, ageing and longer working life : cross-national perspectives /

Contributor(s): Ní Léime, Áine [editor.] | Street, Debrar [editor.] | Vickerstaff, Sarah, 1956- [editor.] | Krekula, Clary [editor.] | Loretto, Wendy [editor.].
Series: Ageing in a global context: Publisher: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017Description: xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781447325116; 9781447325116:; 1447325117.Other title: Gender, ageing and extended working life [Cover title].Subject(s): Life span, Productive | Gender identity in the workplace | Retirement ageDDC classification: 331.398
Contents:
The empirical landscape of extended working lives / Debra Street -- Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda / Clary Kerkula and Sarah Vickerstaff -- Gender persepctives on working life policies / Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto -- The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives : a gender perspectives / Elizabeth Brooke -- extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition / Anna Hokema -- Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland / Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline Finn -- Ageing and older workers in Portugal : a gender-sensitive appraoch / sara Falcao Casaca and Heloísa Perista -- Sewden : an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations / Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engstrom and Aida Alvinius -- The United Kingdom - a new moral imperative : live longer, work longer / Sally Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto -- Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women's and men's working lives / Debra Street and Joanne Tompkins -- Gendered and extended work : research and policy needs for work in later life / sarah Vikerstaff, Debra Street, Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula.
Summary: As nations worldwide grapple with aging populations and rising social security costs, many have chosen to raise retirement ages. That change is predicated on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are of an age that in the past would likely have meant they were out of the workforce. This book challenges that assumption, along with the gender-neutral way the issue of retirement age is generally treated. A group of international contributors applies life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement, the range of transitions from paid work to retirement and how they differ for men, women, and those in different family circumstances and occupations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The empirical landscape of extended working lives / Debra Street -- Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda / Clary Kerkula and Sarah Vickerstaff -- Gender persepctives on working life policies / Áine Ní Léime and Wendy Loretto -- The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives : a gender perspectives / Elizabeth Brooke -- extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition / Anna Hokema -- Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland / Áine Ní Léime, Nata Duvvury and Caroline Finn -- Ageing and older workers in Portugal : a gender-sensitive appraoch / sara Falcao Casaca and Heloísa Perista -- Sewden : an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations / Clary Krekula, Lars-Gunnar Engstrom and Aida Alvinius -- The United Kingdom - a new moral imperative : live longer, work longer / Sally Vickerstaff and Wendy Loretto -- Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women's and men's working lives / Debra Street and Joanne Tompkins -- Gendered and extended work : research and policy needs for work in later life / sarah Vikerstaff, Debra Street, Áine Ní Léime and Clary Krekula.

As nations worldwide grapple with aging populations and rising social security costs, many have chosen to raise retirement ages. That change is predicated on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are of an age that in the past would likely have meant they were out of the workforce. This book challenges that assumption, along with the gender-neutral way the issue of retirement age is generally treated. A group of international contributors applies life-course approaches to understanding evolving definitions of work and retirement, the range of transitions from paid work to retirement and how they differ for men, women, and those in different family circumstances and occupations.

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