Women, work and pensions : international issues and prospects

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Women, work and pensions : international issues and prospects

edited by Jay Ginn, Debra Street and Sara Arber

Open University Press, 2001

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-260) and index

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Population ageing has fuelled interest in pensions and intergenerational equity, leading to privatization of pensions. Yet the gender implications of such policies and the connections between the gender contract and the generational contract remain unexplored. Women, Work and Pensions examines how women's paid and unpaid work, interacting with the gendered pension systems of six liberal welfare states - Britain, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand - contributes to female poverty in later life. By comparing how these welfare states deal with women's employment, family roles and pension entitlement, the nature of the residual welfare model is better understood. Changes over the past three decades in the gender contract and in women's employment suggest that family caring may have less impact on women's pensions in the future. Yet pension reforms which diminish the effectiveness of women-friendly features in state pensions through cuts and privatization point in the opposite direction. This issue, and how the pension penalties of caring vary with women's class, ethnicity and birth cohort, are major themes of the book.

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Notes on contributors Foreword Engendering pensions a comparative framework Cross-national trends in women's work The demographic debate the gendered political economy of pensions A colder pension climate for British women Modelling the gender impact of British pension reforms Women and pensions perspectives, motivations and choices Between means-testing and social insurance women's pensions in Ireland Social Insecurity? Women and pensions in the US Perpetuating women's disadvantage trends in US private pensions 1976-95 Creeping selectivity in Canadian women's pensions Pension reform in Australia problematic gender equality The world's social laboratory women friendly aspects of New Zealand pensions Women's pension outlook variations among liberal welfare states References Glossary of technical terms and abbreviations Index.

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