Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life: Cross-National Perspectives

doi:10.46692/9781447325130

Gender, Ageing and Extended Working Life

Cross-National Perspectives

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Edited by Áine Ní Léime, National University of Ireland Galway, Debra Street, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Sarah Vickerstaff, University of Kent, Clary Krekula, Karlstads universitet Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap och fysik, Wendy Loretto, The University of Edinburgh

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: April 2022
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781447325130
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447325130

Series:: Ageing in a Global Context
Subjects:: Sociology of Religion, International Business, Management, Sociology

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This book offers a challenge to the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles.

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Cross-National Perspectives

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures
pp v-vi

List of abbreviations
pp vii-viii

Notes on contributors
pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements
pp xii-xii

Series editors’ preface
pp xiii-xiv

Part One - Gendering later life work: Empirical, theoretical and policy issues
pp 1-2

one - The empirical landscape of extended working lives
pp 3-26

two - Theoretical and conceptual issues in the extending working lives agenda
pp 27-52

three - Gender perspectives on extended working life policies
pp 53-76

Part Two - Extended working life in seven OECD countries
pp 77-78

four - The Australian empirical landscape of extended working lives: a gender perspective
pp 79-98

five - Extended working lives in Germany from a gender and life-course perspective: a country in policy transition
pp 99-116

six - Extended working life, gender and precarious work in Ireland
pp 117-136

seven - Ageing and older workers in Portugal: a gender-sensitive approach
pp 137-156

eight - Sweden: an extended working life policy that overlooks gender considerations
pp 157-174

nine - The United Kingdom – a new moral imperative: live longer, work longer
pp 175-192

ten - Is 70 the new 60? Extending American women’s and men’s working lives
pp 193-216

Part Three - Conclusion
pp 217-218

eleven - Gendered and extended work: research and policy needs for work in later life
pp 219-242

Index
pp 243-249

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