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Defamilisation and familisation measures
— can they reduce the adverse effects of pro-market pension reforms on women in Hong Kong and the UK? | | Author(s) | Ruby C M Chau, Liam Foster, Sam W K Yu |
| Journal title | Critical Social Policy, vol 36, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Sage, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 205-224 |
| Source | www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Women as carers ; Pensions ; Savings ; Retirement policy ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Typically, women's pay is lower than their male counterparts, and they have a greater likelihood of having caring responsibilities or working part-time. As a result, women tend to accumulate smaller pension pots than men. This article explores the impact of defamilisation and familisation measures for women with caring responsibilities and their implications for access to pensions in later life in Hong Kong and the UK in the context of pro-market pension reforms. The article discusses pro-market pension reforms and their effects on women. Next, it discusses the potential role of defamilisation and familisation measures in reducing the adverse effects of pro-market pension reforms. It then focuses on pension policies and examples of defamilisation and familisation measures in Hong Kong and the UK. Finally, on the basis of the discussion of the link between defamilisation and familisation measures and pension measures for women, the authors assert that both Hong Kong and the UK still have much to do in developing multi-option measures throughout the life course - measures that could limit future inequalities in retirement between men and women. (OFFPRINT.) (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160419003 A |
| Classmark | BD: P6:SH: JJ: JDD: G5 48: 8: 7DR |
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