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Women and Retirement - Challenges of a New Life Stage (Paperback)
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Women and Retirement - Challenges of a New Life Stage (Paperback)
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In the last century, changes to the nature and patterns of women's
working lives have been vast. Notably, the huge increase in women's
participation in the paid workforce means that today women are
retiring in unprecedented numbers. How do they cope with this
lifestyle transition? What major difficulties do they face? How do
they process the problems associated with managing this transition
in fulfilling ways while juggling family, financial, friendship,
ageing and health issues? To date, most retirement studies have
focused on men, and therefore gender-specific issues relating to
post-work life, such as the pay gap, the double shift, women's
longer lifespans and their traditional roles as carers and social
nurturers, have been afforded far less attention. Women and
Retirement: Challenges of a New Life Stage is the first book of its
kind to examine women's retirement using a lifespan perspective.
Based on the authors' extensive study of over 1,000 retired
Australian women as well as current research, the book presents
models of various retirement trajectories and compares women's
experiences with the more widely researched retirement experiences
of men. Moore and Rosenthal consider the nature of the transition
from full-time work to retirement and the many different pathways
and factors influencing this journey: women's financial status in
the retirement years; their health changes; and the varied activity
patterns they adopt. Women and Retirement is a comprehensive,
up-to-date and evidence-based review of the female retirement
experience. It will be invaluable for courses on ageing and health
within psychology, women's studies, social work and sociology, and
for use by practitioners in these fields.
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