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Women, work and pensions — international issues and prospects
Author(s)	Jay Ginn, Debra Street, Sara Arber
Publisher	Open University Press, Buckingham, 2001
Pages	270 pp
Source	Open University Press, Celtic Court, 22 Ballmoor, Buckingham MK18 1XW.
Keywords	Older women ; Pensions ; Employment ; Social policy ; International.
Annotation	"Women, work and pensions" examines how women's paid and unpaid work, interacting with the pension systems of six liberal welfare states - the UK, the US, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand - contributes to female poverty in later life. Changes in women's employment over the past 30 years suggest that family caring may have less impact on women's pensions in future. Yet pension reforms that diminish the effectiveness of women-friendly features in state pensions through cuts and privatisation point in the opposite direction. This issue, and how the pension penalties of caring vary with women's class, ethnicity and birth cohort are also major themes. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011026002 B
Classmark	BD: JJ: WJ: TM2: 72
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