Retiring Women

工作和工作后的Transitions

Ageing, Work and Welfare series

Philip Taylor, Professor of Human Resource Management, Federation Business School, Federation University Australia and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Earl, Lecturer in Communication, School of Communication and Design, RMIT Vietnam, Elizabeth Brooke, Senior Research Fellow, Demography and Ageing Unit, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Christopher McLoughlin, Independent Researcher, Australia

With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women’s choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women’s career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.

‘This book is among the first to solely focus on the work and retirement of older women. Much needed research in a field that is still dominated by male perspectives, whereas the older workforce consists of increasing shares of women.’
– Kène Henkens, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands