Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life : : Cross-National Perspectives / / ed. by Wendy Loretto, Clary Krekula, Sarah Vickerstaff, Debra Street, Aine Ni Leime.
Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for ex...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Ageing in a Global Context
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Series editors’ preface
- Gendering later life work: empirical, theoretical and policy issues
- The empirical landscape of extended working lives
- Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda
- Gender perspectives on extended working life policies
- Extended working life in seven OECD countries
- The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective
- Extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition
- Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland
- Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach
- Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations
- The United Kingdom – a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer
- Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women’s and men’s working lives
- Conclusion
- Gendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life
- Index