Gender, Pensions and the Lifecourse: How Pensions Need to Adapt to Changing Family Forms

by Jay Ginn

Book Overview

An emerging consensus sees British pension policy as unravelling. Yet the gender impact of expanding private pension provision and relying increasingly on means-testing has been largely overlooked.This book examines key issues such as: how pension choices over the lifecourse are structured by gender, class and ethnicity;the impact of changing patterns of partnership and parenthood on pension building;the distributional impact of privatising pensions;questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186134337X
• ISBN13: 9781861343376
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 152 Pages