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Unanticipated consequences — a comparison of expected and actual retirement timing among older women
Author(s)	Lillian Zimmerman, Barbara Mitchell, Andrew Wister
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 12, nos 1/2, 2000
Pages	pp 109-128
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Retirement age ; Preparation [retirement] ; Social surveys ; Canada.
Annotation	Adopting a political economy of ageing perspective, it is argued that socially-structured patterns of gender inequality related to women's multiple roles across the life course affect patterns of retirement timing. Specifically, it is hypothesised that the gendered nature of women's work-retirement decision-making is unanticipated during pre-retirement years. Logistic regression analyses were performed on data drawn from a sample of 275 women aged 45+ living in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada. A central finding was that while actual timing of retirement is affected by family caregiving responsibilities and by health or stress factors, pre-retirees do not perceive these to be important in their own expected retirement timing. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001016242 A
Classmark	BD: G5A: GA: 3F: 7S
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