Women, work, and pensions : international issues and prospects / edited by Jay Ginn, Debra Street, and Sara Arber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ginn, Jay.

Street, Debra.

Arber, Sara, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment.

Women.

Women--Pensions.

Old age pensions.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

xvi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2001.

Contents:

1 Engendering pensions: a comparative framework / Jay Ginn, Mary Daly, Debra Street 1

2 Cross-national trends in women's work / Jay Ginn, Debra Street, Sara Arber 11

3 The demographic debate: a gendered political economy of pensions / Debra Street, Jay Ginn 31

4 A colder pension climate for British women / Jay Ginn, Sara Arber 44

5 Modelling the gender impact of British pension reforms / Jane Falkingham, Katherine Rake 67

6 Women and pensions: perspectives, motivations and choices / Kay Peggs, Mary Davies 86

7 Between means-testing and social insurance: women's pensions in Ireland / Mary Daly 103

8 Social insecurity? Women and pensions in the US / Debra Street, Janet Wilmoth 120

9 Perpetuating women's disadvantage: trends in US private pensions, 1976-95 / Angela M. O'Rand 142

10 Creeping selectivity in Canadian women's pensions / Debra Street, Ingrid Connidis 158

11 Pension reform in Australia: problematic gender equality / Sheila Shaver 179

12 The world's social laboratory: women friendly aspects of New Zealand pensions / Susan St John, Brian Gran 199

13 Women's pension outlook: variations among liberal welfare states / Jay Ginn, Debra Street, Sara Arber 216.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

033520595X

0335205941

OCLC:

45129304