Gender Pensions and the Lifecourse

by Jay Ginn

Overview

This ground-breaking book examines how shifting gender relations in successive cohorts interact with pension reforms, raising questions about distributional equity in the context of gendered familial responsibilities. New patterns of pension advantage are emerging, influenced by partnership status, parenthood, class and ethnicity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861343383
Publisher:	Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol
Publication date:	06/11/2003
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jay Ginn, School of Human Sciences, University of Surrey

Table of Contents

Trends in gender relations, employment and pensions
Choice and risk in pensions: gender and class inequalities
Pension prospects for minority ethnic groups
Changing patterns of partnership: divorce and pensions
Impact of motherhood on pension acquisition: differentiation according to education
Gender and pensions in the European Union: towards an independence model?
British pension policy: a gender perspective on alternative rescue plans

Editorial Reviews

... essential reading for all who study and research in social policy, sociology, women's studies, social work and social gerontology. Ageing & Society

Here, at last, is a book that anyone concerned with income inequality, retirement, pensions, care or gender ought to read. It is accessible, scholarly and packed with recent research data. Jay Ginn has produced the definitive text on gender and pensions and it will undoubtedly soon be required reading for policy makers, students and researchers. The implications of her carefully presented argument go well beyond the boundaries of the title and the UK. Indeed, it is a book that has implications for everyone, but particularly every woman, in the EU who hopes, one day to retire from paid work and/or caring responsibilities and on a decent income of their own. Kirk Mann, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds

... essential reading for all who study and research in social policy, sociology, women's studies, social work and social gerontology. Ageing & Society

When one of Europe's leading authorities on retirement pensions publishes a book of this quality one has to sit up and take notice. Jay Ginn has produced another tour de force. Journal of Social Policy

This book is for anyone who has an interest in the equity issues of pension reform, offering as it does not just a specific analysis on gender but a model for many analyses of a similar nature. Citizen's Income newsletter

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