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Gender, pensions and the lifecourse
— how pensions need to adapt to changing family forms | | Author(s) | Jay Ginn |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 2004 |
| Pages | 144 pp |
| Source | Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. direct.orders@marston.co.uk |
| Keywords | Pensions ; Private pensions ; Older men ; Older women ; The Family ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Increased life expectancy, an increased awareness of private pension risks, and declining state pensions have led to an emerging consensus that British pensions policy is unravelling. This book examines how shifting gender relations in successive cohorts have interacted with pension reforms and employment trends. Other key issues considered are: how pension choices over the lifecourse are structured by gender, class and ethnicity; the impact of changing patterns of family and partnership relations on pension building; the distributional impact of privatising pensions; and questions about individualisation of rights, survivor benefits, a citizen's pension, and means-testing. Comparisons across the European Union (EU) indicate that other EU countries are better able to reconcile women's dual caring and employment roles. With concerns about pensioner poverty, disincentives to saving, and the crisis in private pensions, alternative plans for British pension policy are suggested. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040616005 B |
| Classmark | JJ: JK: BC: BD: SJ: TM2 |
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