Women, Work and Pensions (July 2001, Open University Press)
(edited by J. Ginn, D. Street and S. Arber)
For details, see http://195.89.185.89/bd.cgi/openup/isb?0335205941
The book examines how women's paid and unpaid work, interacting with the
gendered pension systems of six liberal welfare states -
Britain, US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand -
contributes to female poverty in later life.
Changes 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 that 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.
Jay Ginn
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