Retiring Women: Work and Post-Work Transitions

by Philip Taylor, Christopher McLoughlin, Catherine Earl, et al.

This book considers what work and retirement mean for older women, how each is experienced, and how working fits with other facets of their lives. The authors draw on data collected from women themselves, employers, industry stakeholders and older workers' advocates, to explore older women's experiences of work and retirement against a backdrop of current policy efforts to extend working lives in response to ageing societies. Contrary to common representations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783477156
• ISBN13: 9781783477159
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages